The justification was that they had received paltry pay while domestic industry boomed.

Possible charges against those involved are criminal association, counterfeiting, domestic industry fraud and traffic in stolen goods.

Import-substitution strategies, to protect domestic industry, provided sub-standard goods and preserved inefficiencies.

In fact, imports are a benefit to consumers, expanding the range of choice and constraining price increases, and to domestic industry, which becomes more efficient.

Cotton spinning and weaving was the largest domestic industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.