The "Nippon" has an article dealing with the cotton-spinning industry of Japan. Never in the annals of the spinning industry, says the Tokio journal, has there been such an acute depression as that which is now experienced by the- Japanese spinners in general, In the spring of this year the Spinners' Guild at Osaka, while devising the resolation to reduce the output after! May 1 by abolishing night work for a period of six months, thereby attempting to encourage the export of Japanese yarns to Chiga in the future. Bat their efforts were of no svail. Not only the it bat also the same line, are experiencing great hardship at present. Under these circumstances, the Japanese Cotton lipinners' Guild convened an extraordinary meeting on the 8th instant, when it was agreed that the period of the suspension of night work should be further prolonged until April 30 next. With the abolition of night work, the number of operatives has naturally at the ratio of over 4,000 every month, so that their number at the end of July this year bad diminished to 67,709. It may be that, s the result of the
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