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Show 0mmll In Germany the experiment has been tried of running silk looms with small electric motors and the plan has proved successful. success-ful. It is said that tho availability of this kind of power is likely to lead to a return to the old system in many lines under which each workman did his work at home. Men have been crowded together in factories because power could not be furnished at many points. It is doubtful whether the old plan would work in tho fierce competition competi-tion of modern industry, but it would no douht improve the condition of tho operatives. |