COTTON DISPUTE

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 August 1929, Page 9

COTTON DISPUTE

MEETINGS OF EMPLOYERS. ARBITRATION DISCUSSED. MR. MACDONALD’S SUGGESTION. I British Ollicaal Wireleet,.; Received 12.30 p.m. t-o-day. RUGBY, Aug. 13. Meetings which it .is hoped will lead to a resumption of negotiations between the parties in the cotton trade dispute were held at Manchester today. They were the result of an interview between the Prime Minister and the employers at Edinburgh during the week-end. when the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, it is understood, urged the desirability of submitting the case to arbitration. At noon the committee of the Cotton Spinners and Manuwacturers’ Association met. Sir Horace Wilson, permanent secretary for the Ministry of Labour, was present. The meeting was adjourned when it became known that the committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners’ Association had been called together for this afternoon. It is expected that these two sections of the employers will meet later in consultation with a view to joint action. Part of the business at each meeting dealt with the question of arbitration and reports were given of the interview with Mr MacDonald.