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CHAPTER XIII.

I Total / Spinning I Weaving
1939 1942 J 1939 1942 1939 1942 1939 1942 1939 1942
E,Establishment No. 5t 170 7 " 80 ml 6 151 8 20
Monthly average of
total persons
engaged No. 881 2,995 19' 658 41>8 1,601 110 ess 71 18'
Gross output £P.OOO 299 2,SH 74 ""' 165 1.426 " S7S 20 150
Net output £P.OOO 149 1,118 SS 201 88 606 ., 256 7 ..
Net output per
person engaged £P. 180 979 171 905 192 978 198 467 95 291
Horse Power capacity H.P. 1,279 2,S05 567 770 994 786 219 661 129 178
Value of capital
invested £P.OOO £P. "' 1,126 70 *** "' 655 " 165 " 68
Average value of
capital invested
per wage-earner £P. 418 489 "' 428 409 556 485 866 "' 560 * "Other textiles" include ropes, twines, nettings, absorbent cotton etc.

141. The rise in prices betgeen 1939 and 1942 may tend to mask the substantial physical increase that has taken place. The real growth that has been registered is revealed by expressing the l942 production in terms of the prices prevailing in 1939. For all branches of the Jewish textile industry the picture is as follows :-

Value of production in 1942

Value of 1942 production expressed in 1939 prices Value of production in 1939

Production of 1942 expressed as per cent of 1939 production

£P.2,343,610 £1'.1,235,409 £P. 292,596

422%

The increase of 322% in the physical volume of output compares with the increase of 257 % in the number of wage earners.

142. If 194'.l's net output be similarly revalued in term of 1939 prices, the figure would be £P.593,000 (£P.l,118,000 in 1942 prices). Net output per person engaged was in 1941 .!JP.198 (revalued in 1931) terms) compared with £P.180 in 1939-an increase of 5.5% in the space of three years. If the higher prices of 1942 be employed the increase in net output per capita engaged is 107%.

143. Thirteen establishments out of a total of 170 accounted for 61 % of the output (both gross and net) and employed 50% of the workers in the industry. As might be anticipated, the net output per worker in the larger and better equipped plants is substantially higher than in the smaller factories; £P.466 per worker compared with £P .290. The bulk of the industry is centred in and about Tel Aviv though the largest single enterprise is located in the

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