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SALEM: With the strike of silk cloth manufacturers against yarn price hike entering the third day, over 10,000 silk weavers in the handloom and semi-automated units here were left jobless.

Intensifying the stir on Monday, they, including some leading retailers and wholesalers of finished clothes, conducted a demonstration and forwarded a memorandum to the Collector.

Master weavers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail merchants have traditionally adopted a tactical move of off-loading the burden of hike in input cost on the weavers.

The present price increase is said to be due to abnormal monsoon which reduced the quality and quantity of cocoon production.

The price of good quality silk has increased from Rs 1,100 to Rs 1,800. The cost of 慗ari?has also increased by 10 percent.

Apart from Salem (including Namakkal), which has a predominant silk manufacturing base, the problem has been reported in Kancheepuram, Dharmavaram, Madurai and Thirubuvanam also.

Salem was once famous for white silk dhothis and 慳ngavstrams.?With the decline of Kancheepuram cooperative units, original Kancheepuram sarees are now outsourced in Salem.

憫The cost of Chinese silk has gone up to over Rs 2,500 a kilo on account of import and other levies.

揃ut the manufacturers lament that they are unable to recover the cost of production.

揘early 1 lakh sarees in Salem and over 10 lakh in other parts have stagnated, they say and have stopped further production in order to curtail losses,拻 says Balaraman, president of Salem District Handloom Silk Textiles Manufacturers and Sellers Association.

But none of the manufacturers let a word about the enormous grey manufacturing base that are catering to grey market. Chinese silk dumped in grey markets find its way into villages in Salem, Namakkal.

TNIE carried an exclusive report about the crackdown on manufactures and traders who had stocks of smuggled Chinese silk in March 1, 2003.

Units in Salem region send finished silk cloth of various grades to Africans in UK through illicit sea voyages.

Smuggled Chinese silk poses a major threat to Indian silk say officials in TANSILK which is the apex body for silk.

Balaraman says that a federation has been formed with associations of manufacturers and sellers.

The strike, which started on Friday will last till February 15. Production worth over Rs 20 crore will be affected.

Stoppage in production bring weaving units to a grinding halt. This has a telling effect on the fragile economies of the weaving clusters which are mostly cottage units found in Mettur, Nangavallai, Jalakandapuram, Vanavasi, Kondalampatti.

Officials intervene and broker a compromise between the stake holders but the resulting patch-ups does not last, according to the observed outcomes in the last four years.

As Salem economy depends on weaving, of which silk weaving is concentrated in the rural areas, the strike assumes political importance, say the weavers.