HC Deb 29 March 1923 vol 162 c741W
Mr. TURNER

asked the Home Secretary if he is aware that the employers' association in the woollen and worsted trade, the Woolbrokers' Association of Liverpool, and the executive of the National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade have each passed a. Resolution approving of the disinfection of dangerous wools, and declared their opinion that the delegates at the forthcoming meeting of the governing body of the League of Nations, to be held on the 10th of April, should place upon the agenda for the autumn meeting of the International Labour Organisation a Resolution in favour of compulsory disinfection of dangerous wools, so that there may be international action to secure immunity from anthrax, which still occurs in Bradford, Dewsbury, and other wool-using and cloth-making centres; and will the Government give instructions to this effect to the British representative on the Council of the League?

Mr. BRIDGEMAN

The answer to both parts of the question is in the affirmative?

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