The Textile Digest - Quarterly Journal of the Textile Association (India) January-March 1951

The improved mthods of textile mill humidification establishment of the standard of workers' comforts the use of refrigeration to maintain the right temperature have shown a marked improvement in the quantity and quality of textile production in other countries. [...] The internal working conditions conditions of machinery and the conditions of labour are quite different from centre to centre and cotton mixings are never steady due to noavailability of cotton of certain varieties in sufficient quantities and above all the technical knowledge of the Spinning Masters and the Mill Managers (who dictate the mixings) are staggeringly different from mill to mill [...] On the Ring Frame the length of yarn between the drafting rollers and the bobbin is under tension during the process of spinning and it is this tension which is responsible for the occurrence of many of the end breakages. [...] Now coming to the work-load of a sider the time taken to piece up a broken end depends very much upon the type of breakage and the length of time the end has been broken when the sider reaches for it. [...] Therefore we have to consider before we allot any increase in the work-load of the sider the improvements in the working condtions of the frame and the atmosphere of the room.