Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-18 | Page 16 | Textile Work near Normal

Reports Gains E TF f f- f I 6 y f L George A A. A Sloan TEXTILE WORK j NEAR NORMAL l f Employment Under Cotton Back Pre De Code at i Level NEW YORK Oct 18 UP UP UP-Ern- Em in the textile Industry has returned to levels under un isa- der the textile code with wages Increased Increased In In- creased and working hours reduced Ge George rge A. A Sloan president of oc th the Cotton Textile Institute said today In an address b before tore the institutes institute's annual meeting Weekly payrolls compared with wit the first week seek of March have ad Old advanced nearly per cent Sloan said He said the charges that mills dc de de- de ll had accumulated large volumes vol umes of stocks in order to be wel vell supplied when the code went Into cf ef feet were untrue In the middle of September stocks amounted to approximately the same quantity as a a year car ago namely yards ards he hc said Just prior to the thc adoption of the code on July 17 7 stocks stock had been reduced to about The average wage for seven occupational occupational groups in 1932 that earned more marc than the minimum wage prescribed proscribed pre pre- scribed in the code was 34 9 cents per hour Sloan said In August this year car the average wage WOlge for the far the same group 43 9 cents an Oln increase of ot 25 5 per cent He added that the thc August August Au Au- gust rate was 40 per cent in excess of f the code minimum The Thc hour 40 week had the effect of f reducing the working week an average of at 25 per cent Sloan said An employment survey brought out that int during the last week of August the he number of persons on mill payrolLs pay pay- rolls oils had increased to the extent of at workers or 40 per cent com corn I pared ared with the first first week of March