Indian Tariff Board. Cotton Textile Industry. Volume V. Miscellaneous Oral Evidence Given Before the Indian Tariff Board

As far as f know the only basis on which you can make an estimate of handloom production in the country is to take the amount of yarn available for consumption by handlooms in the country; that is to say you take all the yarn produced in the country and the yarn imported into the country you take the yarn exported from the country you take the yarn used by the mills and then what is left over i [...] If I went solely on the basis of the available yarn for handlooms then I am forced to the inference that whenever there is an increase in the prduction of textile mills there is an increase in the production of hanlooms and whenever there is a decline in the production of textile mills there is a reduction in handloom production. [...] President.—In your note on the handloom industry you make the sugestion which I personally would accept that in order to judge correctly the progress made by the handloom industry you have got to proceed not so much on the basis of the total production but on the basis of the actual nett earning of the weaver. [...] President.—Therefore the real test of the progress made by the hanloom weaving industry is the progress in the matter of wages. [...] I put the case from the point of view of the handloom to the representatives of the Bombay Millowners' Association when they appeared before us last week and they did not accept the position as I put it to them.