21 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 28

THE PROSPERITY OF THE TINPLATE INDUSTRY.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATO5.1

SIR,—Enclosed is an extract from a letter recently received by me from the secretary of the Pontardulais Trades and Labour Council.—I am, Sir, &c., HAROLD COX. Cobden Club, 6 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, W.C.

"Pontardnlais is an important centre in the tinplate industry, and as such takes great interest in the controversy now raging, especially as Mr. Chamberlain has taken the industry as one his strong points. I should like to say, as a working man and a

tinplater, that the tinplate trade is now more prosperous than I ever remember it."—DA.vm lawn.