11.0
II. —Four-Shaft Twills.—Radcliffk.
Width of goods.
Heed.
Picks per i inch.
Length
of
pieces.
Twist.
Weft.
Wages
per
piece.
Weekly production per loom.
I whi*s.
34
(Hi
12 ‘2
Short ells. SO
32 f s
40’s
Pence.
15*05
Pieces.
•i
34
c<;
13-25
80
32’s
40's
16 -05
H
34
00
14-45
80
32s
40s
18-48
3
34
GG
1 *55
80
32’s
40's
10-84
on
“4
III.—Burnley Printers. (
Width of goods.
Heed.
Pieks per .7 inch.
Length
of
pieces.
Twist.
Weft.
Wages
per
piece.
Weekly production per loom.
Inches.
34
GS
18-75
Yards.
135
Medium (28)
Pence.
40 03
Yards.
200
20
07
18-68
116
31 *02
215
2(1
53
12-47
125
21-07
352
50
14-25
130
1
24-42
31G
The above figures show extremely low prices per piece, which give the weaver a weekly wage of 22s. to 24s. A comparison with Germany in figures would be impossible in detail, but still the foregoing particulars should not. be withheld from practical men
TTT. — Labour.
A.—Further Proofs of the Statement advanced from Other Countries.
We can condense our result up to this point in the sentence : Technical progress, in connection with an increase of labour capacity, accomplishes a permanent lowering of pieces wages, at the same time raising the weekly earnings of the operatives and gradually shortening the hours of labour. If wo further supported this statement by comparing the present condition of the English cotton industry with its condition in the “thirties” and that of the contemporary German, the cotton industry in its
28, Medium — 28’s-4. r >’s twist, 30’s-G0’s weft.