TEXTILE INDUSTRIES
SPECULATORS AND PRICES OPERATIVES DEMAND INQUIRY Press Associat ion —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 28. The united textile factory workers, embracing a majority of the cotton operatives, passed a resolution ordering an inquiry into the toll taken of the cotton trade by speculators, middlemen, and agents. Tlu* mover declared that the cotton crop was sold four or five times before the seed was sown. Alter the harvest the (Top was bought and sold many times bv people who never saw it. The same thing happened in the yarn and cloth stages, with the result that eloth which should he at Is a vanl was retailed at is or Ss and up to 10».—Renter,
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Evening Star, Issue 19006, 30 July 1925, Page 5
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114TEXTILE INDUSTRIES Evening Star, Issue 19006, 30 July 1925, Page 5
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