Hundred years ago | Situation of pottery industry unfavourable

The situation in the Czechoslovak pottery industry has not been very favourable for some time, the majority of the factories suffering from a lack of foreign markets. On the home market also sales have decreased compared with a year ago owing to the quietness which prevails at present in the building industry. Only the kaolin works of Western Bohemia and the Rakovaik pottery factories have assured markets for their products. The former have received large orders from the German paper mills while the latter obtained a contract at the last autumn fair, in face of forty competitors, for the supply of considerable quantities of tiles for railway tunnels in the United States.

An increasingly large number of glass workers are emigrating to France, especially to Bordeaux, where a large proportion of the men employed at the glass works are Czechoslovaks.