The Snellenburg Clothing Company, 1920 - Frank Xavier Leyendecker

The Snellenburg Clothing Company, 1920 - Frank Xavier Leyendecker
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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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d of bankrupt silk goods be-gan to flow out from factories and ware-houses. Some authorities believe thatyears of hard times will follow the silkcrash in Japan. Over there our proletariansilk shirt, and the boom of which it was thesymbol, brought 14,000 new factories ofone kind and another into existence duringthe war, making new jobs for nearly500,000 people. Japans foreign tradejumped from $650,000,000 in 1915 to$2,225,000,000 in 1919. Of her half millionnew workers sixty per cent came from thefarms. Rice rose to prices that meantstarvation for the masses, while factorywages increased only fifty per cent againsttwo hundred per cent increase in the costof living. Strikes are legally criminal inJapan, but industrial unrest found expres-sion in sabotage. The silk crash has thrownthousands of workers out of employment,closed hundreds of mills, and, worst of all,threatens to cheek production of v.iw silkby cocoon raisers and reelers. (Continued, on Page 169) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 167
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