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Show SOUS WRECK COTTON MILLS i b.t the Associated Press. 1 LONDON, Oct. 16. Russia's great pre-war cotton industry has suffered to such an extent during the revolu-' revolu-' lion that it Is doubtful whether many of the mills ever will be abb- to operate oper-ate again, says Sir Charles Bdacara, an English authority in the world's cotton trade, in an interview In the Yorkshire Post. Based upon information obtained from an Englishman who recently returned re-turned from Russia, where for ii years he was the manager of a larg cotton factory near Moscow. Sir Charles estimates that of the 'a. 000, 000 spindles running in Russia before the revolution not more than 200, 000 or j 0 0 . 0 o 0 are now operating Tli1' 1 xperlcnt es of the English manager man-ager of the MOSCOW factory were told as an example of the methods employed em-ployed by revolutionists in dealing with one of Russia's great industrial assets, the textile factories In the Mos- ovv district, This particular mill carried car-ried on all the processes from cotton spinning to th( finished product, 17.-000 17.-000 workers having bi en employed under normal operating conditions. When the bolsh'-viki assumed power the Whole cotton industry was nationalized na-tionalized At every mill committees were formed and finally, in October, 1919, a degree was issued that all w ho had been connected with the- former owners would have to leave With the experts gone, the mill stopped. After a time attempts were made to re-start it, but it was almost impossible to obtain ob-tain raw cotton. Small quantities were obtained, Which utter being diluted with 75 per rent waste. was put through the processes. The machinery now is In a very bad slate. In such a state, in fact, that it would be almost impossible tooperale in factory properly, according'to the-i Information rUv Blr Charles H hen-ever hen-ever machines are damaged, other machines are denuded of parts to repair re-pair them. |