BOOM AT BRADFORD
INCREASED EMPLOYMENT. BEST QUARTER SINCE WAR. London, March 16. The Bradford correspondent of the Daily Express says four months of exceptional business have been completed in the wool industry, and it is agreed that it was the best trading quarter since the war period. The unemployed .totalled 50,000 in September, whereas now they total 10,000. Scores of firms which were facing bankruptcy in the autumn are prospering now, owing to the in sterling and import duties killing competition from low-wage countries on the Continent. The employees in the spinning and weaving mills are now working double shifts, and wool combers are operating 24 hours a day.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3445, 19 March 1932, Page 5
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