DISPUTE OVER WAGES
COTTON AND WOOL TRADES. London, July 22. There is no sign of the cotton employers withdrawing the lock-out notices. Trouble is also feared in the wool trade following the employers’ motion at the Industrial Council to-day for an all-round reduction of wages. —Australian Press Association. EFFORTS TO REACH AGREEMENT. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, July 22. The Ministry of Labour, through its Permanent Secretary, Sir Horace Wilson, is keeping in touch with both parties in the cotton dispute. The notices expire on Sunday, but efforts are being made to reach an eleventh-hour agreement. It. Is understood that in such case the Government would expedite the projected investigation under the industrial courts into the cotton industry.—British Official- Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20834, 24 July 1929, Page 5
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