COTTON TRADE CRISIS

Northern Advocate, 17 August 1932, Page 5

COTTON TRADE CRISIS

UNIONS REPUDIATE. OFFER., ULTTMATU-M TO OWNERS, BIG STRIKE ALTERNATIVE, . (Received 9 a.m.) ' ■ LONDON, August 15. The'iCentral Board of the Federallion, representing the' ten. principalunions in the cotton trade, .has. decided to call a strike throligliont-.itlvg manufacturing section of the industry unless the employers make a better offer by August 27. ■' If this decision is carried out’ the strike will involve 200,000 operatives immediately and may eventually , stop 500,000 from working. . WAGES REDUCTION. LANCASHIRE AFFECTED. CRISIS INTENSIFIED. (Received 12.H0 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. The master cotton spinners have followed the manufacturers in launching a wages reduction movement, extending the crisis to the Lancashire cotton industry. This- section has long foreseen the necessity of reducing the’costs of production as being as imperative with yarn as with cloth.. The operatives ’ association has received a month’s notice of a reduction of .13.(19 per cent, in wages. Their loaders say they are not prepared to accept such a cut. The erisis will be intensified by this decision. The general council of the Weavers’ Amalgamation is recommending a general stoppage in the weaving section over the wage reductions, hut, before taking action, the committee is endeavouring to secure support from the Northern Counties' Textile Trades Federa tion.