MAKING 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 foods which can be bought at much lower prices thau 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,” the Sunday Chronicle was told recently.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 5
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