Annual Report of S.M.C. Industrial Section Ca-operation of Employers The following is a summary of the! annual report for 1995 of the S.M.C. does not mean that with a reduced working force there has been a hisihe1 of accident. Unable The year has been one of much dimeully for factories in the International Setilement. During. the carly months of the year "many factories both large and small were foreed to cease operations and, while some re-opened later, many, Including two cotton mills, "have " remained closed. The slackness of the trade situation generally expressed Itself otherwise, where factories were able to continue operation, "in reduced working hours and abolition of a Bg shitt where this was eusomarity Some cotton mills, for example, for a period worked only three nights and three days per week instead of the usual six days and seven nights. In yet other cases undertakings kept going accompanied by a reduction in Wage rates, a 10 per cent. loss being experienced by some cotton mill workers, while in other industries the piece-work rate was successively Towered. Others again increased the Tength of the working day concurrently with reduction in the hour and piece-work rate In an attempt to lower production costs,
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