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Show RUSSIA TRIES TO KEEP MILLS GOING MOSCOW. Nov. 25. The Russian textile Industry Is just now passing through a crisis and. In order to save 120,000 workmen from unemployment the government has permitted the state cotton committee and the textile syndicate to Import 2.000,000 poods or 3G.000 tons of cotton assigning for this purpose a Six month's loan of 20 -000,000 gold rubles The n.-w economic policy of the soviet sov-iet government, has given rise t. a number of combined state trusts in the textile Industry, and many factories factor-ies which have been Idle for tho last four years are now running. But the revolution ruined the cotton planting Industry in Tnrkeslan and the Caucasus Caucas-us and no fresh supply of the raw material ma-terial was forthcoming Thus the factories fac-tories had to use up their small funds 0 1 . "tton left over from pre-war days, but I his, togethoi with tho expected harvest of this year, will hardly l ist them till next February. Working at the rate of one-fifth of I the pre-war production, the requirements require-ments of the Russian textile Industry for the next y ar Is estimated nt ;.-600.000 ;.-600.000 pood3 of raw material for 1,-i 1,-i 600.000 spindles. This year's harvest of cotton is estimated at 700,000 poods while the remainder of tho amount i abroad, chiefly In Bukkhara, Persia, ' and Khl -a- |