NO SETTLEMENT IN COTTON DISPUTE.
STOPPAGE EXPECTED IN SOME MILLS TO-DAY
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received January 5, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 4. Prolonged negotiations in the complicated dispute between the employers and operatives in a section of the cotton industry were renewed yesterday after reaching a deadlock on Friday, but no agreement was found possible. The dispute concerns the proposed increase in the number of looms in the charge of each operative, and the effect on wages and conditions. A stoppage in some mills on Monday is inevitable, but great efforts will be made to prevent its spreading The points still at issue are regarded as of secondary importance, and the intervention of the Government may be sough t. ______________
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19269, 5 January 1931, Page 1
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121NO SETTLEMENT IN COTTON DISPUTE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19269, 5 January 1931, Page 1
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