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closed their door earlier on South
African exports.
According to the chairman Of the
South African Masonite Company,
eve have also heard rumblings
from our other markets, especially
Malaga and Singapore, where trade
unions have proposed boycotts."
The return of the African Lightn-
ing with its full cargo is being re-
garded here as having almost SYM
bolic significance. Never before
has international hostility to South
Africa's racial policies been brou-
ght home with such effect to the
business world.
Opposition newspapers have COM
mented, "The closing Of this new
and important market (Trinidad)
is directly attributable to the gov
ernments' uncompromising color
policy"
A report on the return Of the
cargo has been made to the South
African Federated Chamber of In
dustries and also to the govern
ment which has been urged to send
a mission of good will to the West
Indies.
Mission Seen Useless
But prominent industrialist has
remarked, 81 am afraid such a mis-
sion would be useless unless there
was a change in government poll
cy."
The loss of West Indies trade i.
by no means ruinous for South
Africa. 1t forms only a small per
centage of South Africa's overall
exports. What could be damaging
however, is if lockers in othe
countries followed Trinidad's ex
ample and refused to unload Soutl
African ships.
Boycotts have been threatene'
against South African goods il
many African territories and il
various countries in Europe, in
Guiding Britain, where the Britisl
Labor Party and the British Trade
Union Congress are officially sup
porting the don't buy South Afri
can goods" campaign.
These are consumer boycotts
however, and it is impossible a
this stage to gauge how effectiv
they have been. The South Afri
can Government declares that tn
boycotts have failed and that Soutl
Africa's exports never have beer
higher
Verwoerd Unperturbed
Even the call by the anti-Com
munist international Confederation
of Free Trade Unions to its 81,
100000 members to boycott Soutl
African goods is not APPARENTLY
worrying Prime Minister Hendrix
F. Verwoerd's government here
which has decided apparently tha
consumer boycotts are not worth
worrying about.
Both in Europe and the United
States, attempts have been made tt
persuade lockers not to handle
South African goods, and govern
ment spokesman here admit readily
from consumers boycott.
Britain and the United State.
are two of South Africa's larges
customers. Action by dock worker.
in either of the countries woult
precipitate a crisis Immediately il
the South African economy.
Confidence Expressed
DR.. Verwoerd's government j.
reasonably confident that no sucl
action will be taken. While it doe.
not deny that there is widespread
hostility toward its apartheid poll
cies, it believes major action by
dock workers in big countries sucl
as the United States and Britain
would raise too many trade uinor
and other problems for the decker.
themselves to be capable of nipple
mentation.
All this self-assuranc, however
] does not alter the fact that tn,
African Lightning has returned te
Durham with it's full cargo. TIL,
business world in South Africa
feels it is justified in its concern
lest the habit of dock workers t.
refuse to handle South African
cargoes be one which could spread