BRITISH TEXTILE INDUSTRY
SAFEGUARDING INQUIRY f Australian Press Assn.—United Service. London, February 27. The wool .safeguarding inquiry dealt to-day with the extent to which low ■wages and long hours on the Continent count in the /competition which British manufacturers have to meet. Mr. Henry Spencer, chairman of the Shipley District Employment Committee of the Ministry of- Labour, gave evidence that wages in Poland were 30 to 40 per cent, of the British; in Italy and Czecho-Slovakia, 40 to 45 per cent.; in Belgium, 50 per cent.: in France and Germany, 57 per cent.; and in Holland 75 per cent. Regarding / Germany, Mr. Spencer produced statistics showing that among 86,519 textile workers 36.3 per cent, worked 52 to 54 hours a week, while a substantial proportion of males actually worked more than 56 hours, while of 15,107 male skilled workers, 42 per cent, averaged 52 to 54 hours, and of 15,227 female skilled workers twothirds averaged 48 to 54 hours.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 133, 1 March 1929, Page 11
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