CHEAP GOODS
Union Asks For Ban
The secretary of the Canterbury Rubber Workers’ Union (Mr T. Fletcher) has written to the Associate Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr Shelton) telling him that there must be a shut-out of rubber goods from “slave and cheap-labour countries which over-produce and then dump their goods in New Zealand.”
The cheap goods, said Mr Fletcher, were being brought into New Zealand on tramp cargo boats sailing under foreign flags manned by underpaid seamen. Mr Fletcher said that hot water bottles made overseas could still be bought in a shop in Christchurch. Too many tyres of a type that appeared to be made in South-East Asia were on vehicles in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31801, 4 October 1968, Page 1
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117CHEAP GOODS Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31801, 4 October 1968, Page 1
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