ATV Today: 13.03.1981: Knitwear workers protest march

Summary

Thousands of knitwear workers marched through Nottingham in protest at the state of their industry. Cheap imports from the third world and the United States are causing a decline in sales and many people are becoming unemployed.

Year:

1981

Duration:

0:02:55

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see shots of the march and interviews with marchers. There are shots of an interview with representative George Marshall who told John Mitchell that the industry will be destroyed unless selective import controls are introduced. George Harrison, of the Knitting Industries Federation, said that he felt that the Government should encourage EEC members to buy British goods. John Mitchell also reports to camera.


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