Imperial Typewriter
In a week when the Department of Industry has been making generous grants to industries that have no chance of reaching self-sustaining existence, the Imperial Typewriter company have put up the shutters, saying that the nature of their problem does not lend itself to financial help.
Now this is bold and commendable. What is less forthright (and it would be interesting to know what influence their American parent, the Litton conglomerate, has had in this) is the company's silence on the question of overseas competition. Industry is said to be in favour of the Common Market and generally against such protectionist measures as import quotas (for which this paper continues to fight) in a world of imperfect competition. Instead of a workers' sit-in, those who are being chucked out at Imperial might consider lobbying the authorities for office equipment quotas. In any event, they should know which way to vote on thP referendum,
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