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Show BRITISH TRADE PROSPECT DARK Eric Geddes Takes Dismal View in Interview " LONDON. Aug. U (By A. P.j "I put th settlement of the Euro- all muuin which can be taken for the Improvement of trail and tha reduction of unemployment in thla aountry," aald Sir Eric Ueddee, former cabinet minister and aca-nomlo aca-nomlo authority, addressing tha Bradsford branch of tha federation Of British Induatrlea tha ether day "Tha general upward trend of trade." continued tha speaker, "la checked because of tha disturbed condition ot Europe, and while I hare fair reason to hope for an upward up-ward trend In tha cyol of trade. I can at present aea nothing but blackneaa when I look for a resumption resump-tion of the upward progression In the general level of trade shown during tha last century. "Our unemployment la ceased by fhestMeoflurnpeThea'nrtnf trading, and banking community of tha country cannot too Insistently bring before the government the conviction that tha great problems of thla country would melt as mist before the sun If a stabilised condition con-dition could ba brought about In Europe, "Not only ran Germany not purchase pur-chase from us, but Italy prefer to purchaee from Oermany because German cost of production la much lower owing to her depreciated currency. cur-rency. And tt does not atop taere. India cannot purchase from wa e. causa Oermany cannot purrnase India's products and ao throughout the world. As proof thai England still lagged behind America In tha efficiency of herfartoiTneraMveeMrFrlcpe that while Kngllsh hands did ne mora work than they did some years ago. In America there had been an all around Improvement of 14 per cent In tha efficiency of factory workers |