§ Number of workpeople of all ages employed in (a) artificial silk manufacture, and (b) the silk industry, including the working up of artificial silk:
| (a) Artificial Silk Manufacture. | ||||
| Year. | Manual Workers. | Non-Manual Workers. | Total. | |
| 1926 | … | 23,237 | 1,588 | 24,825 |
| 1927 | … | 31,101 | 1,865 | 32,966 |
| 1928 | … | 37,940 | 2,318 | 40,258 |
| (b) Silk Industry, including the working up of artificial silk. | ||||
| Year. | Manual Workers. | Non-Manual Workers. | Total. | |
| 1926 | … | 41,891 | 5,106 | 46,997 |
| 1927 | … | 56,119 | 5,845 | 61,964 |
| 1928 | … | 52,860 | 5,998 | 58,858 |
§ The figures are extracted from the annual reports of the German Factory Inspectorate: the reports for 1929 are not yet available. Workpeople employed in the working up of mixtures of artificial silk and other textiles appear to he excluded: it is not clear, from the information in the possession of the Ministry of Labour, whether those engaged in the manufacture of artificial silk hosiery are included or excluded.