Word: clegg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Littleboro, Lancashire, the countryside tells a century of cotton history. There are the old cottages, where women used to hand out woven cloth to merchants on horseback in return for more yarn to weave into more cloth. There is the 100-year-old red brick mill, which Cuthbert Barwick Clegg's grandfather built to replace cottage industry, and where he prospered. (Now a third of its 1,500 prewar workers rattle around in the big weaving rooms among many idle looms.) There is the big grey stone house, built by Grandfather Clegg, now too big for Cuthbert to staff...
...Cuthbert Clegg, who strives to keep his cotton mill modern, is a rarity among millowners in the "Black Country." Many a third-or fourth-generation industrial family is as encrusted with habit and stifling tradition as their mill towns, nestling like ugly blackheads on the face of one of England's greenest regions, are encrusted with soot and smoke...
...half of the working party (including Cuthbert Clegg, two other owners' representatives, the three public representatives) opposed the key recommendations of the report: 1) a three-year levy on each spindle for a fund which the Government would use to help equip plants with new machines; 2) grouping of small mills into larger, more economical units; 3) shutdown of plants now having idle machines (because of labor shortage), to permit more intensive use of their labor force in modern plants...
...Cuthbert Clegg and his fellow dissenters vainly insisted that the profit motive would be incentive enough for millowners to switch to modern methods. "There is little incentive," they said, "to be found either in monopolistic capitalism or in free enterprise fussily fettered by the state...
Double Take. In Philadelphia, Mrs. Naomi Clegg lost her purse and door-key to a bag snatcher, wondered how she would get in, arrived home to find the door wide open, the place looted...