WOOL IN BRITAIN.
FACTORIES VOLUNTARILY CLOSE (U.P.A.) LONDON, May 18. The United Kingdom wool industry is now subject to direct measures for the concentration and reduction of production, despite the fact that rationing of raw material supplies has been a severe implement of control since the outbreak of war.
Numbers of factories are being closed under a “voluntary” plan. A levy will lie imposed on the surviving factories to compensate the closed firms for liabilities which cannot be met from other sources. Sales to home industries are now limited to 30 per cent, of the pre-war figure. The rayon industry has also boon subjected to restrictions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 185, 20 May 1941, Page 3
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