§ Mr. Harrisonasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give an assurance that every step will be taken to secure our textile industry from unfair competition, in the form of sweated labour, which was so much the feature of the pre-war Japanese textile industry, in view of the recent Commonwealth Agreement on Japanese trade.
§ Mr. H. WilsonI can assure my hon. Friend that I shall take whatever steps are open to me to protect United Kingdom textile industries from unfair competition based on sweated labour but, as I stated in reply to the hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Erroll) on 25th November. I do not accept the suggestion that the new Japanese Trade Arrangement will necessarily result in such competition