Employers' Campaign to Lower Costs of Production London, Dec. 24.
According to the newspapers, the Federation of Master Cotton-Spinners Associations has decided to Taunch @ campaign for an increase hours of four or five a week and for a 124 per cent, reduction in wages.
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The Federation of Master Cotton-
Spinners' Associations has drawn up a scheme to reduce production costs and increase output. Revision of working-hours and wages is foreshadowed in a report which has been submitted to the cotton-spinners' gnd manufacturers' associations, but on which no joint decisions have yet been taken, It is reported, but not confirmed, that the Federation recommends a reduction of 124 per cent. in piecework rates paid to operatives and an extension of working-hours from 49 to 52, the idea being not to reduce weekly wages but to increase the output. In existing circumstances the machinery is unproductive for four or five hours a week for cleaning and oiling purposes.
The r-sort further tackles the question -f the uneconomic position of mills recapitalized during wartime,
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