Report On The Woolen Rag Trade

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Excerpt from Report on the Woolen Rag Trade, 1920 The abnormal demand created by the war for wool for the uses Of the Army, Navy, and Red Cross work, and the usual demand for wool for civilian use, coupled with a shortage of wool at points where it was available for manufacturers (due to difficulties of transport from the sources of production, and to the commandeering by foreign Govern ments of wool of foreign origin usually available to the American mar ket), had the effect of making new wool available to American mills both unusually scarce and high priced. It became necessary to use substitutes to meet the deficit in the supply of raw wool. The most important available substitute existed in the shoddy (or reworked wool fiber) derived from used woolen rags, and from the trimmings produced in the cutting up of new woolen cloth incident to the manufacture of woolen garments. The term rags is often applied indiscriminately not only to used material but to new material as well. In this report wherever a need exists for distinguishing between these two, general classes, the term used rags will apply to used or worn material, and clips to new or unworn material. On April 5, 1918, the Boston wool trade offered to the Government through the War Industries Board, all its unsold wools at market values as of that date. This Offer was not accepted. On April 25, 1918, they offered to the Government all their unsold wool and tops included in the offering of April 5, and also all foreign wools bought since that date and not under the Government's option, on the fol lowing terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.