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In ni [-making young women weavers working leu and one-half hours 

 PIT day are said to be able to earn 12s. ($2.92) a week by piece-work. 



Another return shows, girls, per week, 9s. ($2.19) ; men, piece-work, 

 LV7. co Is. (4 to 24 cents) per square foot. 



Still another one gives mat- weavers, girls, in full work, 8s. to 9s. per 

 week ($1.95 to $2.19) ; rug- weavers, girls, in full work, 12s. to 14s. per 

 week ($2.92 to $3.41). 



HOURS OF LABOR AND MANNER OF LIVING. 



Working hours, full time, are about fifty -six per week. The factory 

 acts apply to the carpet and rug manufacture as they do to other in- 

 dustries. 



The manner of living among the rug and carpet hands is essentially 

 the same as that of other employes in the textile trade. 



There is no cottage work worth speaking of. Practically the entire 

 product is derived from factories, larger or smaller, as the case may be. 



DIVISION OF MANUFACTURE. 



Dyeing, spinning, weaving, and finishing are conducted unitedly in 

 some instances ; but this is by no means universally done. It would 

 be hard to assign a proportion. 



From the Dewsbury district, on a total estimated loom force of 385 

 looms, of which 360 were reckoned as hand-looms and 25 as power-looms, 

 with an allowance of about 050 operatives employed, an estimated ap- 

 portionment is 10 per cent, weaving only, and 90 per cent, spinning, dye- 

 ing, and weaving. 



In another district the * c weaving only" would be likely to show a 

 larger share proportionately of the work. 



HOW MARKETED. 



The whole output, or nearly the whole, is sold direct from the manu- 

 facturers. Most of it goes to merchants ; some, perhaps, to retailers. 

 Commission houses, as such, are scarcely dealt with. 



WHERE MARKETED. 



The product of the district would seem to be consumed in Great Brit- 

 ain as regards the larger part of it. Some export takes place to the 

 continent, to the colonies, and to the United States. Sales are made, 

 as a rule, on shore credits with small discounts say from cash to one, 

 two, three, or four months, and from 5 per cent, discount to net terms. 



OUTPUT. 



A cloth rug manufacturer in Leeds with fifteen hand-looms reckons 

 them capable of turning out four thousand rugs per annum, working un- 

 interruptedly through the j ear. In this establishment women only are 



