The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new (1907)
Blair, Matthew, d. 1908 · Paisley, A. Gardner · leaf 80
ess of the innocent cause of all thisspeculative mania. The mills of the Coats Combination in Paisley cover ahundred acres of ground. They possess an aggregate engineforce of thirty thousand horse power—requiring a daily con- Present Position of the Thread Industry 75 sumpt of four hundred tons of… … Cl.ARKs MlIXS AT SeEDHILLS. countries. Of these, the majority are girls and women, rangingfrom fourteen years of age to fifty and more. The bobbinturning and dyeing departments are staffed exclusively by males.The rate of pay is liberal. A girl who has just left school,at the age of fourteen,…
Cotton manufacture · Thread
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