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The only Chamber which gooca to have resisted the
pressure against the treaty trag 13radfordi whore, in opite
of W. E. Foroter'o persuasion, a resolution wao passed
mccOpting tho treaty on condition that duties on British
roods were no higher than tboee for other nationo.
minority in the Manchester Chamber of Commorcet led
by Sir Jospeh Lao resented the way in which the agitation
had been worked up. Lee claimed that ".. the trade to the
river in textile fabrics has been greatly overstated$ the
extent does not reach £200,000 a year and to not increasing,
ºhc character
. of the fabrics is the corn oneet and lowest
description manufactured in the country.. "
(2)
(I)
Ile objected
to the Baia of mnna e qnt of the Chamber "". uning the
(undo of the Chamber in the cost lavish manner with the
view of raising and maintaining an Agitation throughout
the country, " (3)
But Lee's resolution against the, 11utton
faction was rejected by sixteen votes to eight,
This agitation than wau mainly economic in content
with some moral overtones, and was carefully organised by
a group of people, who appeared to have been working for
(1) The fitte
1 let May 1884.
i+) The Tinos, 30ti April 1884.
(1) Ib id.
Chnrtbar of C© prce Journal, 5th June 1884..
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