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 | | In Huddersfield and its neighbourhood, however, a very important proportion of the clothworking of the entire district is carried on, and much of the finetextured stuffs, conventionally known as "West of England goods", is spun, woven, and finished on the banks of the Colne. |
 | | The population of Huddersfield and the surrounding districts are almost entirely engaged in the manufacture of woolthe scattered cotton and silk spinning and weaving establishments which may be found here and there being merely exceptions to the general rule. |
 | | The workpeople, on the other hand, maintain that they suffer from the caprice of the employers in bestowing work, and from the frequency with which they are compelled to make repeated journeys to the warehouses or mills before they obtain the yarn which they are to spin and weave in their own homes. |
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