text: [40] How indeed could competition have been possible with the wages of weaving and spinning in India at three-halfpence per day whilst for equal quantities and qualities of workmanship the British weaver was earning five shillings and the spinner ten shillings per day on the average? In 1780 Mr Samuel Crompton the ingenious inventor of the mule frame for spinning such as it exists to this day and is the vast moving machine of cotton manufacturing greatness stated that he obtained _fourteen_ shillings per lb