HANDS ACROSS THE SEA
The students of an American college have been giving'a helping hand to a little group of Chinese workers. The silk-weaving industry in China is suffering from the introduction of rayon, many Chinese being thrown- out of' work l>ecause their looms are not suited to new’ kinds of weaving. Hearing that looms constructed for weaving cotton and woollen fabrics Wpre badly needed by these people, the students-of a college in Kentucky made accurate scale drawings and sent them will, instructions to the distressed Chinese. making it possible for them to resume their trade with notion and wool iiisead of silk.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 166, 9 April 1938, Page 8
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103HANDS ACROSS THE SEA Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 166, 9 April 1938, Page 8
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