COTTON TRADE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 15, 18 July 1910, Page 7

COTTON TRADE.

♦ A STRIKE AVERTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, 16th July. The conference between the Lancashire master cotton spinners and the operatives has been successful in averting » strike. It has been agreed that the employers' demands for a five per centum seduction in wages shall bo withdrawn, provided that neither side attempts to alter the present scale of wages during the next nvo years. [Tile cotton-spinners vigorously opposed the proposal to reduce wages by b per cent, in consequence of a falling •off in orders. The committee of the Federation of Master Cotton-spinners, in a report on the situation, stated that •every advance in wages had been obtained by the men without any stoppage of the mills, but that reductions which liad been necessitated by the condition of the industry had had to be fought for. "The policy of the operatives,'' the report concluded, "seems to bo that wages must be advanced in times of prosperity, but that the malls must work short time during a depression." Mr. William Mullin, secretary of tiho Cardroom Workers' Association, subsequently made the statement that tho workers had suffered enough already, and might as well starve while playing aa starve while w.orking. He warned the owners that a stoppage of the English mills would mean a big advantage to German cotton-spinners, and added that it was the belief of the operatives that trade would he better after September.]