The Japanese textile worker makes about 36 cents an hour. while the American textile worker receives. on the average. $1.99 per hour. The American textile industry is required by law to pay the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour. while the Japanese not only have no minimum wage but enjoy a government subsidy for their exporting efforts. By using labor paid coolie wages. Japan earned $94.4 million last year from textile shipments to the United States. We import $800 million more in cotton. wool. and synthetic fibers than we sell abroad. and onehalf of this trade deficit comes from Japan.