COTTON WORKERS' DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 7

COTTON WORKERS' DISPUTE.

• r : : '.V FAIL.; By Itelegiapii—Press AKociation4oopyriglii .' : ,. ; ' • '.■>'':,' London, Ootober 3;'. V The .'situation inregard to the cotton trouble is. more,hopeful. '■■; v. ' ; 7 '..■_■. Mr., G. R.'Askwith, commercial secretary of. the Board of Trade, is negotiating on the basis of Howe: (the whose ;discharge for refusing to pick cotton seeds from,the maoninery at'Feni Mill precipitated /the-lock-out)' taking ia holiday during arbitration, or being Employed at another. miD,' :the loser of the arbitration ultimately paying his'wagesl" '•„.- There, would thus;. Mr. "Askwith considers, bo-no surrender of-principle'on either side,: .'.■-'.' ■ / * -■■..-'.; : ■■'■■'.\. '.\ :: '-";'.. .'".":,'■;':•; ',--■ The .master, 'Cotton-spinners,::.; however, .rejected .the .card-roomers'-''..- proposal to.jefer ..the'dispute" 'to .arbitration ; on condition that • Howe is rein-, stated. .' ; : .'. "■■.';, - '■:■..■{:'., :''.' : 'y \ '' i r<^^- '. ?THB POINTS' OF DIFFERENCE?. .'(Eec. Ocfober 4, : 10-s.m.)v-;':;:f r a ■;.-' ; ; ; ):i : ':'. /^Londoni-October' .4.;:' The cotton'operatives demandedithat 'Howebe found work at .another mill.; . .The. employers;: replied' "that ■';• ; they would recommend...that, .the millowners give: Howe the.'first: vacancy.': : ?'.■■ ' :The operatives.:then./answered thatthey .'must : insist' : on.-..Howe's • ..employment as apreliminary to'arbitration.\ '■■

Mr. Askwith also suggests ,on the point that the conference, prior to arbitration, discuss the powors,provided under the Brookland's decision to alter working conditions: The operatives agree to this. I ' DOXOLOGY SUNG. (Reo. October 4, 10.35 p.m.) i ," London, October 4. I Somo of the cotton .mills, > believing* that a Settlement had been reached ",on i Sunday, opened yesterday, N but closed ■ again an hour later. , . . The error also led to tho Doxology and Te Deum being sung in some churches and chapels. i L OTHER LABOUR TROUBLES. ■' ON STRIKE FOR ''& YEAR. ' (Reo. Ootober 4, 10.25-p.m.) i ' " London,' October 4. 1 Nine hundred minors at tho Clifton Colliery, Nottinghamshire,' after 'being on strike for a year in consequence of a readjustment, in wages v ,owing to,the I instalment of now machinery, have now rejected the' amended* terms 'offered. I The Miners'" Association has already paid £30,000 in-strike pay. | BIG GERMAN LOOK-OUT POSSIBLE. I (Rec. October 4, 8.50 p.m.) . >' Berlin, Ootober 4. I There'is a prospect of a lock-out of (630,000 -metal-workers. Tho outlook in the trade is gloomy and the electricians threaten to strike in sympathy. > i A TASMANIAN STRIKE. ■ ■ ;>•.': i.', ; ;: Launceston,. October 4. . .The labourers engaged on the permanent way'for the trams have struck , for•-.an"increase of a shilling • a day. Plenty of cheaper labour is available. j■ -. '■';':'-■ ' , '