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terry cloth, or turkish bath toweling, have been so perfected that they are automatic and have been for a long time.

The loom tender carries the old name of weaver, which was the unoisnt pre-machinery name for the job, but the loom tender actually doesn't weave at all. He only fixes and adjusts the warp and woof on the loom itself. It's his duty to watch carefully and to mend and tie up the broken threads. When he finds a broken thread, he ties it by a curious rolling action of the fingers. It's a skilled job and has to be done fast, but it's not a oreposterously difficult job.

In the old days in the Massachusetts and Rhode Island textile mills a man used to tend three looms. Then they improved the looms and he tended five. The number of looms that he can tend effectively depends upon the number of breakages - at least, this is the efficiency engineer's and employer's explanation of it.

There seemed to be no protest until the number of looms tended kept being extended. There would be a whole battery of twenty looms to one man or one woman. Then we began to got grumbling. Of course, the grumblers would state that the job was preposterously difficult, that it was a terrible strain on the individual. Actually, an impartial study of the operation indicated that it was