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Cutlery Industry

[Mr. Cryer.]

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safety at work legislation, and no employ- ment protection Act, so if any factory in- spectors were called in they could be sacked at a moment's notice. It is hardly fair competition for British workers, who' have had this element of protection intro-' duced by the Labour Government, when people in such countries as Korea and Hong Kong are grossly exploited although that would not be true, for example, of Japan.

But it may be necessary, in considering any import restrictions or quotas, during the negotiations for, for example, a social clause to be considered, which may well be of assistance to the working class of Korea in improving their working con- ditions, so as to end the long hours and extreme tiredness demonstrated in the film by the girls falling asleep during their

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