Careful examination of the price lists of German textile firms leads to the conclusion that the German prices for cotton yarns are 0 times the pre-war "quotation, cotton cloth 32 times, and ready-made cotton shirts only 19 times, In other words, the more labour enters into the production the more are the high prices of raw materials compensated by low wages. The only German textile raw material of real importance is flax. Germany is offering in Switzerland linen cloth practically the same Frice as the cotton cloth, both at 16 marks the metre.
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