“Challenge to manufacturers”
Sir, — The editorial, “Challenge to manufacturers” in Saturday’s paper said, “Greater efficiency and improved competitiveness will require the gradual removal of protective measures.” Surely it should have read: An increase in the already high rate of business bankruptcies culminating in the final bankruptcy of the country as a whole will result from the removal of “import licensing,” “tariffs,” and “export incentives.” Recently an employer told me that, even in these times of high unemployment one often got few applicants for jobs, that fewer still were prepared to work hard, that sacking an incompetent worker was hardly worth the risk of trouble with Union since his replacement would probably be no better. Surely'it would be logical to seek ways of solving such problems, be-
fore removing all “protection.” — Yours, etc., MARK D. SADLER. October 25, 1982.
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