Switzerland and the "international wool secretariat"
Autor(en): Kunz, Hans
Objekttyp: Article
Zeitschrift: Swiss textiles [English edition]
Band (Jahr): - (1950)
Heft 2
PDF erstellt am: 25.09.2021
Persistenter Link: http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-799137
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http://www.e-periodica.ch Switzerland and the «International Wool Secretariat-
Wool is an international textile fibre. Its production which has put itself at the service of wool in a purely extends to the five continents and it is used objective and neutral manner. Possessing a very throughout the world in an unparallelled diversity of highly developed wool textile industry, Switzerland forms. Man has tried in vain to give the characteristics has for two years now formed a link in the chain. A of this natural product to the synthetic fibres of limited but active advisory committee marked the his own invention. beginning of collaboration with the International This wool which has been used by man for his own Wool Secretariat. Meanwhile this committee was purposes almost since the dawn of mankind is to be enlarged as it became necessary, and to-day the found everywhere around us and put to the most International Wool Secretariat possesses a subsidiary varied uses without our always being clearly aware secretariat of its own in Zurich. of the fact. The International Wool Secretariat has Wool promotion is the principal task of the Swiss set itself the task of making the public aware of this committee of the International Wool Secretariat importance of wool, and of working on the scientific which is fully justified in basing its propaganda on and economic level to promote the use of wool, by the assertion « There is no substitute for wool ». propaganda and the education of the public. But the history of the world has taught us that it is Founded in 1937 by the sheep-breeders of Australia, not enough simply to state a truth however obvious it
New Zealand and South Africa — who between may be : in order for it to be understood and accepted, them supply almost half of the world's total wool it must be explained. production — the International Wool Secretariat has We must try to make the most of the products that today become an organisation which covers the whole nature offers us, but we must also help towards their world. It constitutes a classic example of international propagation by our educational activities. Swiss wool cooperation in the economic field. promoters are faced with a considerable but highly The headquarters of this organisation are situated interesting task, which they will carry out in in London. From there radiate the threads which collaboration with their South African, Australian and connect it to all the countries which play a part in New Zealand friends in London, but without losing the international wool textile industry : the United sight of the conditions peculiar to Switzerland. The States, France, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, International Wool Secretariat is not a commercial Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland and even institution with lucrative aims. Its sole task is to India. put itself at the service of wool and of its use and Switzerland is a member of this group, which is possibilities of use in Switzerland and all over the not directed against any other textile material but world. Hans Kunz