In and around the city there are about fourteen thousand looms for weaving silk and satin, For some years silk weavers have been required to pay a tax upon each Toom. But recently the weavers have been each reporting one loom only though they owned others. The Superintendent of the Central Office in charge of these taxes resolvod a few days ago to have more looms taxed. The result was that the principal foremen who manage the weaving business immediately suspended operations. They buy material, have'the thread dyed, and wound by women and girls, and finally it is woven on the looms, many. of which are idle for months at a time. The sudden suspension of the weaving business threw out of employment thousands of people. The apprentices of the weavers are rough and rude. Mission aries arg often insulted by this das, and the outbreak on Monday the 8th was simply what any one who knows the character of the weavers might have expected. Many of them are really helpless on account of this sudden suspension of work and their ery for rice expressed a well-grounded fear of starvation. They were desperate.
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