Raw cotton prices.

held, partly be means of selling raw materials at a loss and partly by sudsidising the higher cost producers from pools to which the firm It has been possible to fend off any in the industry contribute. while it was generally understood that the pressure for higher prices a stabilising policy in prices. But if su Government held firmly to a policy is abandoned in the case of one important industry, except for the narrow field of utility goods, it is likely to be considerabl### it in other industries if it should be more difficult to maintain desired to do so.