DEAR LIVING IN INDIA.
HARD LOT OF MIDDLE CLASSES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Bombay, Jan. 12. The cotton workers' strike is symptomatic of the urgency for economic readjustment throughout India The cost of food has increased 102 per cent, compared with pre-war prices while wages have only gone up 50 per cent. Profiteering and land speculating aggravate the situation. Middle class people's lives have become desperately hard. The Nationalists may possibly foment unrest but in this they could not succeed if genuine grievances did Lot ex'ist. The mill owners, while favoring it, are anxious to postpone the introduction of the 10-hour day in view of the need of meeting the abnormal pressure of orders. The present is the greatest trade boom since the sixties. The profits of some mills are 400 per cent- There is unprecedented demand for imports of goods which the Americans are largely contributing.—Times Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1920, Page 5
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147DEAR LIVING IN INDIA. Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1920, Page 5
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