Import Licensing
Sir,—The recent manufacturers’ conference was revealing. They cannot subsist decently without import control, yet the Department of Industry and Commerce talks enthusiastically of export trade in manufactures. Mr Marshall's “pep talk” stressed fierce competition rather than price control. Yet overseas competition seems utterly repugnant to him. The Minister has also said that mushroom industrialisation was necessary for full employment, and must be feeling quite unstuck at the request for immigration to fill vacancies. All this is conducive to spiralling living costs, but not a word from Labour. The struggling Liberal Party is the only critic and is getting neither thanks nor support from a bemused
public. Import control, now
price control. Later, wage, salary, profit and manpower controls within a totalitarian State. —Yours, etc.. V. WILKINSON. Ashburton, October 19,1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 16
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