<note>W. McDowell (continued)</note> in these cases a number of looms are stopped; <lb/>

2 are working full time in one branch of works <lb/> 

& short time for the others; <lb/> 12 are on short time, - from 45 to 27 hours" <lb/>

<note>12 factories on short time.</note> (out of the usual 55 hours week), " & not 75 per" <lb/>
"cent. of the machinery going, & still they say" <lb/> 

"they can't spare any labours!"</p>

One employer, outside the district, told W. M<hi rend="superscript">c</hi>Dowell <lb/> that by working three weeks out of every four on <lb/> three quarter time his material might last seven <lb/> months.

As tenters have no connection with mills he ad-<lb/> vised me to see W. Dawson Gordon of the Flax <lb/> Roughers Association </p>

<hi rend="underline">W. Dawson Gordan.</hi> Enquirer's Hall, College Street. <lb/> said that Miss Galway's figure was correct when <lb/> <note>19 out of 24 mills on short time.</note> she said that only five out of the 24 mills <lb/> in the Belfast district were working full time. <lb/> These are Mr. Jaffe's, Cogry ,<unclear>Derrymount</unclear> <lb/> Edenderry & Blackstaff mills.<lb/> Flax workers earn an average of 25/- per week. <lb/> Women (spinners) on full time would earn from <lb/> 12/- to 13/-. Wages have gone down;- <lb/> Where 80 spindles used to be worked for a certain <lb/> wage, they now have to work 180 for a very few <pb/>