move fabrics including articles of clothing downwardly along the agitator assembly center post and the scrubbing vanes adjacent the skirt portion 20 will tend to move fabrics outwardly along the lower regions of the basket in addition the liquid being pumped outwardly through the skirt portion 20 will cause outwardly directed currents along the bottom region of the basket which liquid currents will be directed upwardly along the outer perimeter of the basket by contact with the basket sidewall the oscillatory to and fro motions of the agitator skirt follow one another so rapidly that there will be little or no flow of liquid radially inwardly through the flow channels 26 in opposition to the momentum of the outwardly moving fluid openings in the lower portion of the basket wall such as those indicated at 40 in fig2 and 5 will allow liquid to flow from the basket back to the tub the volume of liquid flowing from the basket to the tub may be increased by increasing the size and number of holes through the basket walls for example in fig6 the basket is shown as having an apertured sidewall so as to allow practically unrestricted flow of liquid through openings 14a from the basket to the tub of course the total flow even in the embodiment shown in fig6 will be limited by the pumping capacity of the pumping agitator but generally the greater the flow volume the greater will be the pumping agitator 39 s contribution to the roll over pattern of the basket contents during a wash cycle the liquid barrier or water lip seal means comprising the annular flange 31 encompassing the basket center post below the openings 36 serves to insure that the pumping agitator will draw liquid from the tub through the first.