<note>W. Greig. (continued)</note>

three 'black shops'.  He spoke of the new Government <lb/>
factory being opened at gretna, & pointed out that <lb/> 

there are acres of unoccupied land close to 'the island' <lb/>

on the Belfast Harbour Estate on the Co. Down side, <lb/>
which would be a convenient site for a government <lb/>
factory, - here where so many good factory hands are <lb/>
short of work.  Fifty or sixty trams come from <lb/>
all parts of the city to 'the island' every morning <lb/>
about 6.30 a.m.</p>

<note>Miss Daunt</note> <hi rend="underline">Miss Daunt</hi> of the Labour Exchange, said that in <lb/> spite of the short time being worked in the linen mills <lb/> & factories few women registered, as they dared would not <lb/> risk the loss of the low wages they were earning <lb/> with the present high cost of living.

W. M<hi rend="superscript">c</hi>Dowell, Secretary of the Teuters Society, <lb/> 11 Dover Street, Shankill Road. <lb/> told me that a tenter has 28 or 34 weavers under his <lb/> control, & is paid 1<hi rend="superscript">s</hi>/5<hi rend="superscript"><gap/>superscript text</hi> in the £1 on the wages earned<lb/> by them. The tenters are now getting 35/- <lb/> instead of 50/- per week, (or a reduction of 30 per cent). <lb/> He gave a list of the factories in Belfast & district, <lb/> (attached hereto) 34 in number — 2 are working overtime <hi rend="superscript">xx</hi> (the Grove, & Highfield.) <lb/> 18 are down as full time, but I understand that even <lb/> <hi rend="superscript">xx</hi> these factories are said to have complained of want of workers, <lb/> but I am told that they neither applied to the Labour Exchange or advertised for them.<pb/>