restrictions housing what is? nurseries Fifth is the fact that strong import restrictions already exist. Under a procedure known as the Gatt Multifibre Agreement the growth of imports in all textile and allied goods is restricted to 6 per cent a year. In addition there are other import al prevenung "dumping' of cheaper products.
The most protected of all textile pro ducts is cotton. The traditional supplier of cotton finished goods, India, has been allowed no increase in exports to this country since 1966. Yet since then the cotton workforce in this country has dropped by 40 per cent. In the case of cotton, import controls and mass redunAnd if that is what lies behind the sackings at Courtauld, the solutions be come obvious Immediately there must be a full and open inspection by the Courtauld workers of the company's books - to see Jus where all that money they received from ine government nas conc Immediately there must be work-sharing with no loss of pay and no sackings - the profits which the company has made show the money is there.
Immediately not just Courtauld but the whole textile industry should be nationalised under workers control. No com pensation to the bosses should be paid -they have been handed over millions as it is by successive governments.
Once taken over, the textile industry can begin to be centrally planned and controlled. It will not be a case of this group of workers set against that group; it will be a case of the industry as a whole being run not in the self-destroying way of "free-competition' but for the benefit of the workers as a whole.
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