SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 113, 9 November 1921, Page 5

SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT

TEXTILE WORKERS UNEMPLOYED

WORK CONFINED TO FINE WOOL.

(UKITIB MISS ASSOCIATION.—COFTIUSIT.) (AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CABIB ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 9, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Bth November. According to the Yorkshire Observer, there are distinct signs of a general improvement in the woollen textiles trade. The signs are only slight, but they are encouraging. Exhaustive inquiries show that while those sections of the trade concerned in the raw material in some of the earlier processes of manufacture are busy, the manufacturing,' dyeing, and finishing ■ sections do not yet show much difference from the worst stage of the slump. The wool-sorting section is the most active. The position regarding employment in the woollen trades is described as better than normal. In that section of the wool combining business dealing with merinos, there is full employment, while spinners, particularly of botany qualities, are well supplied with orderg. Some large manufacturing firms are now running their mills at full time; others for five days a week, but, generally, for only three or four days. The register of unemployed in Bradford contains 19,000 names of workers, and it is likely to increase before the end of the year, but it is improbable that it will again reach the June record of 58,000 unemployed'woollen workers..