Import controls Don't put your shirt on them

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For unholy TITOUSE THE REACTIONARY nature demands import CondEnis, usuy coming IrOW trude union bureaucrats and the Communist Party, has just heen revealed again.

some time DOW An alliance officials and ciothing manufocturers his been pressing the Labour Government to restrict imports of cheap cletbug.

As a result of this pressure on the quantities of clothing The BEC tha companes сал зарогт.

1979 birt prices will rise by 2: per cent. anoraks by 25-30 pe cent, and knitwear praduers by 15-20 per cent. Tesco's say thar cheap clotbes will rise the most, while British Home Stores is planning for an average tise of 10-20 percent:

The retail outlets will ose dus opportunity - TO make protits, no doubt. But nonetheless import quotas are. a real factor in producing a price rise in a baste working class need — clothing.

Not only do import controls hir fellow workers in other simply transferring unemployment abroad. At the end of the day they hit the British working Import controls this cannot form any bart of a socialisi alternative to the crisis.