The Archive · 1936

Modern Cotton Milt

An up-to-date cotton mill equipped with the very latest machinery" has been opened in Sian. Tt will trid employment for 2,000 workers when tis running ai its full capacity. With regard to: ne looms and spinning machines, T have it on the authority fof a Lancashire man that there is nothing in Lancashire to compete with them. In addition, cotton produced at the very door, 30 to and labour is cheap: 35 cents for a twelve-hour day, and only one! worker is In charge of every six [oams. Even Japan cannot compete with this sort of thing.

Other factories are being built in the new city that is rapidly springing up outside the north: wall of the old city in the vicinity of the rally way station. This new city reminds tone of a mining camp with its mat sheds and makeshift" buildings, No doubt before ong these will be replaced with buildings of more permanent, and, it is to be oped, more graceful structure. Already at-tempis are being made by the authorities at street planning, but not before they were needed.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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