LOCK-OUT AVERTED

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 11

LOCK-OUT AVERTED

AT LANCASHIRE COTTON MILLS (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Rec. August 2, 10.5 p.m.) London, August 2. The Lancashire cotton lugk-out wa« averted by the spinner, Ackley, rejoining the union on certain undisclosed terms. (The Federation of tlie Master Cotton Spinners’ Association had recoin-, mended :i lock-out tit nil 1 lie Lancashire mills, affecting half a million workers. This was the result of a strike in the Ramsey mill, Oldham, which had arisen over a dispute between an operative named Goodman Ackley and the trade union. Ackley had not paid his subserf ption to the union for ten months, mid his colleagues decided not to work with him any longer. The employers protested that it was no concern of (heirs, mid refused to dischaige Acklej. Thereupon the strike was called. The federation said that Ackley offered to pay up his arrears, but the union insisted that he should rejoin as a new member. This would cancel the accrued benefits to which he was entitled as tlie result of over twenty years’ membership. This dislocation of the firms’ business as a means of determining a private dispute between workpeople and their union was regarded by ihe federation as mi unwarrantable menace which cannot be tolerated.”]