It is not even correct to say that most of them do not directly compete with native labour.

It is true that certain branches of the cheap clothing trade have been their creation.

The cheap coat trade, which they almost monopolize, seems due to their presence.

But even here they have established no new _kind_ of trade.

To their cheap labour perhaps is due in some cases the large export trade in cheap clothing, but even then it is doubtful whether the work would not otherwise have been done by machinery under healthier conditions, and have furnished work and wages for English workers.