COTTON STRIKE
POSITION AT OLDHAM MANY SPINNERS IDLE LONDON, Oct. 31. Forty thousand spinners are idle at Oldham, but six mills offering the old rates are fully staffed. SETTLEMENT REJECTED RESULT OF LENGTHY PARLEY [ British Official Wireless.] Received Nov. 1, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 31. The operatives and spinners’ amalgamation refused by 84 votes to 38 to endorse the wages settlement reached one week ago by the executive after negotiations with the employers, whic.: lasted 87 hours. The amalgamation decided that its members should strike this morning at all mills where the wage reductions of 6.67 per cent., which were agreed to in the settlement, were put into effect. There is, in con sequence, a prospect of a general stoppage of the spinning mills in Lancashire as from to-day.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 259, 2 November 1932, Page 7
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