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9 November 1967: Hervey Rhodes, Saddleworth (West Riding) woollen manufacturer and Labour peer, on investment, productivity and immigration

House of Lords. 1967/11/09. Yorkshire and Humberside Development. Hansard, Vol. 286. London: UK Parliament. Licensed under Open Parliament Licence, without modification. Get it:

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The noble Lord, Lord Popplewell, talked about migration: he said that some were going out and others were coming in. Pakistanis were coming in while Yorkshire people were going out. Let me relate the experience of talking over this problem with one workman who is a friend of mine, close to where I live. There was a reduction in hours coming along, and we had been discussing the importance of time for leisure, and all the rest of it, and then he came out with a startling remark. He said, “If we have these reductions in hours, tha’ knows, we’ll be needing some Pakistanis to fill vacancies oop”. A very shrewd but, my word! what a poignant remark. Does that not light up the whole facet of the productivity drive that we have been after? If the factories had been there, if the machines were in the factories, and if they were working in modern ways, we should not need the Pakistanis at all.

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Where was his mill precisely? Saddleworth? Diggle?

I hope someone will point me to some usable Pakistani material.

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It is suggested that this was Alice Mann:

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