WORK FOR GIRLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

WORK FOR GIRLS.

SHORTAGE IN MILLS. YORKSHIRE WOOLLEN TRADE. "While the Lancashire cotton trade is at present in a state of ferment over the more looms-per-weaver difficulty, the Yorkshire woollen and worsted trade is faced with a problem quite opposite in character. The difficulty in Yorkshire is a scarcity of weavers, following the trade revival—a problem of more weavers for looms. In the woollen trade, with very few exceptions, one weaver tends only ono loom. During the long depression in trade, a large number of girl weavers left the trade and found other occupations, and now do not show any disposition to return to it. The demand for weavers is, as a copsequence, much greater than the supply. Since the improvement in the trade set in the numbers on the unemployed register in Bradford alone, the centre of the industry, have been reduced by nearly 20,000, or more than half, anrl now lots of machinery is standing for want of operatives, and manufacturers are having to turn good orders away. A similar shortage exists in regard to burlers and menders, a class of workers, girls, who regard themselves as the aristocracy of the wool trade.