Woollen mills’ difficulties
Sir, — Mr J. S. Lee, president of the Textile and Woollen Mills Association, makes some important points on the trading scene. He says that cheap “synthetic” fabrics produced abroad have largely displaced local wool fabric use; that local woollen production has been driven to. the fields of handknitting and industrial yarns which are well protected but over-supplied; that his association feels confident of the future of the industry providing they get as much protection as anyone else. So, on- the one hand, the public votes with its purse against protectionism, and,on the other, its employers have shown that our industrial base is dependent upon it. Is it not time we produced only those lines in which we are competitive on the world markets? If we wish to milk our profitable sectors to feed a politically expedient industrial base let us at least have the honesty to expect a continually declining standard of living and increasing unemployment. — Yours, etc., R. A. SMITHAM. May 6, 1980.
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