COTTON CRISIS.
LANCASHIRE DISPUTE.
Lock-Out Throws 250,000
Operatives Idle.
NEGOTIATIONS FRUITLESS.
(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright)
(Received 11.80 a.m.)
LONDON, January IS.
In spite of the efforts of the Ministry of Labour to avoid a stoppage of work in the cotton industry the Lancashire employers' lock-out in the manufacturing section was begun at noon yesterday.
About 250,000 operatives are idle and tho entire industry will be at a standstill failing an immediate settlement of the dispute.
The lock-out followed upon 10 hours of fruitless negotiations at Manchester by the Ministry. It proposed that work eiiould be resumed at the cotton mills at which stoppages had occurred because of the employers' demand for more looms to ' a weaver, and that the lock-out notices should be postponed. However both the weavers and the employers rejected the proposal.
The Minister of Labour, Miss Margaret BondAcld, telegraphed to both sides in tho cotton dispute reminding them that the effects of the stoppage cannot be confined to the parties concerned but will inflict injury on the whole country, and expressing the hope for a speedy settlement.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 7
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