C.W.S WEAVING SHED IS CLOSING FOR THE YEAR

130 WORKERS AFFECTED

THE Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Weaving Shed in Dumers Lane, Radcliffe’s largest textile concern, is to close down and its 130 operatives made redundant.

The announcement was made to the employees and their union on Friday and efforts are already under way to find the workers affected employment elsewhere.

The Dumers Lane shed, built in 1910 for its present purpose and one of the earliest mills in the country to have automatic looms, is one of three cotton and woollen concerns which the Society is closing because they have become unprofitable.

The other two CWS textile sections to be closed are at Daisyfield in Bury, where 127 operatives are affected.

Mr Gerald Lange, secretary of the Bury, Radcliffe and District Weavers and Winders’ Association has stated that arrangements are already in hand to place the operatives in alternative employment.

With the closure of the Radcliffe mill which will be phased over a period concluding at the end of the year, only five weaving firms will be left in the town and prospects are generally bleak due to the depression in the industry.

In announcing the three closures, which will leave a total of 330 people redundant, a spokesperson for the CWS stated: “For the last few years sections of the Society’s cotton and woollen mills have been operating under great difficulties in common with much of the industry.”

SHOCK STATEMENT BY HEADMASTER

SCHOOL WILL BE FULL TO CAPACITY BY XMAS

WESLEY METHODIST SCHOOL, built in 1886 but situated in an area where new estates have sprung up in nearly all directions and where school accommodation problems have reached an acute stage, is now fighting the “battle of the bulge.”

The school has practically reached saturation point with recent figures showing powerful evidence to support the present campaign for a new building in the Turks Road area to replace the Wesley Methodist school.

The school is allowed to take a maximum of 326 pupils and the present register is 301.