Letter from the Local Government Board (LGB) to Cecil Pim, 11 March 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Local Government Board

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A letter from the Local Government Board (LGB) to Cecil Pim of the Greenmount Spinning Company, requesting information on the reasons behind imposing 'short time' hours on the employees in a number of Belfast linen mills, and whether it is due to shortage of raw materials or coal. The writer poses these questions to Pim so as to be 'prepared to meet demands which may arise for the relief of distress...'

 National Archives of Ireland NAI, CSORP/1916/7443/14/5 https://letters1916.ie/item/515 English Local Government Board 1916-03-11 Local Government Board, Dublin, Ireland Cecil Pim Greenmount Spinning Company, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Ireland Industry and Public Administration Industry and Public Administration

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 Local Government Board, Dublin. 11th March, 1916. Dear Mr. Pim, You have been good enough on previous occasions to give me the benefit of your knowledge as to the conditions prevailing in the linen trade in Belfast and I fell sure that you will not object to doing so again. Such information as you can give me will of course be confidential. Some months ago as far as I can ascertain 'short time' was imposed upon a number of Belfast Mills owing to the difficulty and uncertainty as to the supply of raw materials. Am I right in thinking that these difficulties have not been so great as was anticipated and that by some means or other the spinning and weaving trades are managing to get a reasonably good supply of flax and yarn? If this is so at the moment I suppose we may reasonably conclude that that supply of raw material will somehow or other continue to be sufficient to keep the mills going without recourse to short time.' Upon the other hand I hear that there is great difficulty experienced in getting sufficient supplies of coal in Belfast and that owing to a shortage in coal rather than a shortage in material 'short time' prevails and may continue. I am asking you these questions because as you know we have to be prepared to meet demands which may arise for the relief of distress as a consequence either of shortage in raw material/ material, coal or from any other cause. With apologies for troubling you again. Yours very truly, Cecil Pim, Esq., c/o Greenmount Spinning Company, Harold's Cross, DUBLIN. Local Government Board Letter from the Local Government Board to Emily J. Slocock, 11 March 1916Letter from the Local Government Board (LGB) to Cecil Pim, 11 March 1916 Cecil Pim Letter from the Local Government Board (LGB) to Cecil Pim, 11 March 1916Letter from Cecil Pim to E. A. Aston, 15 March 1916Letter from a War Employments Inspector to Cecil Pim, 20 March 1916 Greenmount Spinning Company, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Ireland Letter from the Local Government Board (LGB) to Cecil Pim, 11 March 1916 Local Government Board, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Sir Henry A Robinson to Robert Chalmers, 29 May 1916Letter from a Local Government Board Inspector to Captain Kelly, 11 March 1916Letter from R. C. Kelly to E. A. Aston, 14 March 1916Letter from Alexander McDowell to E. A. Aston, 17 March 1916Letter from a Local Government Board inspector to C. J. Hanrette, 11 March 1916Letter from C. J. Hanrette to E. A. Aston, 14 March 1916Letter from the Local Government Board (LGB) to Cecil Pim, 11 March 1916Letter from Cecil Pim to E. A. Aston, 15 March 1916Letter from Sir Henry A Robinson to Thomas Nally, 6 April 1916Letter from Alexander Richard Barlas to the Longford Urban District Council, 28 July 1916Letter from J.E. Devlin to the Under Secretary of Ireland, 23 June 1916Letter from the Alexander Richard Barlas to Sir Matthew Nathan, 15 February 1916Letter from A R Barlas to Sir Matthew Nathan, 1 March 1916Letter from J E Devlin to the Local Authority Longford, 30 November 1915Letter from L.S. Smith to the Executive Sanitary Officer, 3 March 1916Letter from A R Barlas to Sir Matthew Nathan, 28 February 1916