MARTIN Stevens (Letters, 12 June) savs that import controls will not hit foreign workers because as British industries colreplaced with those of foreign workers, but the country just gets poorer and de-maustralisation We shouldn't rob workers of an important tool in •ceram toos ana mausury His first argument isn't true because his second isn't true cula Import controls don t defend jobs.
They don't take control of investment out of private hands. atais, workers arre rorced io buy goods from British capitalists, at higher prices than do is fork out extra cash to keep these capitalists afloat.
al 1s, in ericci, a cisguista subsidy: Fair enough - but isn't this OK if the capitalists then use this money to keep tael maustres going? The answer is that they don'r!
Britain's private shipbuilders were subsidised up to their cyeballs right throughout this cennever ploughed back a peury of it.
The cash was used to prop up ating profits, pay back moneylandes and sharcholders fat comctitive rates of interest), and -if there any left over soroon, widt rala or pront are much higher because of the slavelabour conditions of economic стоску.
But doesn't this benefit foreign workers? Absolutely not.
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