COTTON INDUSTRY.
MANY MILLS STOPPED. ONE-THIRD OF OLDHAM IDLE. NO SECOND BALLOT YET, (by telegraph—ritESs association—coptkisbt.) (Rec. September 23, 9.40 p.m.) London, September 23. The cardroom workers in Lancashire, whoso refusal to accept the employers' proposed 5 per cent, reduction in wages involves the idleness of the operative spinners and .other employees in tho spinning mills, are taking no steps with regard to holding a second ballot on the question. At presont 530 mills havo stopped, and 160 are working wholly or partially. Onethird of tho population of Oldham—a town of considerably over n hundred thousand inhabitants—has becr< v'rown idle Employers owning ir.ilHon spindles, who do not belong to thi* '-ViVr.ition of Master Cotton Spinners, have nsobii! to adopt the employers' policy.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 7
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122COTTON INDUSTRY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 7
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