American manufacturers can buy domestic woolen and worsted machinery somewhat. but not very much. cheaper than Inported machinery. but as the manufacture of woolen and worsted machinery. like the woolen industry itself. is younger and very much less developed in this country than Europe. such domestic machinery. especially that used for the production of finer goods. has not the same efficiency as the European. and consequently proves more costly in the long run. I also quote from page 9: The operatives in American woolen mills. In spite of the very much higher wages paid. are largely drawn from the ranks of unskilled labor. And whence does this unskilled labor come? There is little of it among nativeborn Americans. It Is taken from the steady flow of immigrants Into this country. This same complaint about inefficient help comes from Philadelphia and from the southern mills. They should go to Worcester.
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