MAKE BRITISH GOODS
AND BUY FOREIGN ■Women workers in hosiery factories at Leicester, Nottingham, and Coventry are buying foreign stockings and lingerie at prices ranging from a shilling less than the cost of the articles they manufacture themselves, This is one serious aspect of an invasion of foreign-made hosiery and lingerie, which ,is troubling Midlands manufacturers. Cut-rate firms are marketing foreign goods which can be bought at much lower prices than are economically possible in Britain. “ It is the ironic truth that many women hosiery workers will buy foreign stockings from a stall—and ignore the more expensive products they themselves have made,” tho ‘ Sunday Chronicle ’ was .told recently.
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Evening Star, Issue 22542, 9 January 1937, Page 21
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108MAKE BRITISH GOODS Evening Star, Issue 22542, 9 January 1937, Page 21
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