ABSTRACT
Much of the success of Linen weaving in Dundee is due to the workpeople. They have shewn a readiness to adopt improvements for lessening labour and facilitating the various processes which is highly honourable to them. They have also shewn a remarkable facility for acquiring the skill and dexterity necessary to work the machines with quickness and ease, to the advantage alike of their employers and themselves. Perhaps it is the same with the people engaged in Linen power-loom operations in other places, and if so all deserve commendation. It is gratifying to think that the wages of the operatives are in every department about double what they were in 1842, and it is to be hoped that in the future they will be as well remunerated for their labour as now.
