THE COTTON CRISIS.
# NEGOTIATIONS SUSPENDED. (UOTTZD FRES3 ASSOCIATION—-8T W.ECTBIC TELKGBAPH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, August 5. Hopes of negotiations being resumed in the cotton crisis evaporated when the operative spinners' delegates' meeting rejected a recommendation empowering the executive to obtain the best terms possible.—Australian Press Association. [A lock-out in the Lancashire cotton mills began on July 29th, and 1800 mills and 500,000 men were then reported to be virtually idle. The lockout followed the Master Cotton Spinners' Federation's decision to cut wages by 2s 6d in the £l. The manufacturing and weaving unions refused to consider a reduction, but the spinning employees indicated that they would be willing to work out a separate agreement with the employers if a compromise were offered. Some mills not affiliated to the Federation are carrying on without wage reductions.]
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 11
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