While recognising the agreement on all sides of the House as to the menace which Japanese competition constituted to the Lancashire textile trade before the war, may I ask my right hon. and learned Friend whether he is aware that from the early 'thirties onwards all the Co-operative societies of this country operated a complete boycott of Japanese goods? Secondly, will my right hon. and learned Friend inquire to what extent, before the war and since, firms completely under the control of private enterprise were and are most anxious to use sweated Japanese labour to make profits in the retail market of this country?