“What is the good, I ask, in the name of common sense, of prohibiting sweating in this country if you allow sweated goods to come in from foreign countries? If you insist on limitation, of hours and upon precautions for security, bear in mind all these things add to the cost of production, to the difficulties of the manufacturer in selling his goods, and unless you give him some increased price, some increased advantage in compensation, then he cannot carry on competition any longer. All these conditions in the long run will result not to your advantage, for you will have no work to do, but to the advantage of the foreigner, who is not so scrupulous and who conducts his work without any of these conditions…If protected labour is good, and I think in many ways it is…then it is good to protect the results of labour, and you cannot do one without the other.”

— Joseph Chamberlain

Speech in Liverpool (27 October 1903), quoted in The Times (28 October 1903), p. 6.
1900s

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