Breach Threatened Over Compulsory Collective Piece-work London, Apr. 29.
What is believed to be a serious situation has developed, affecting. about 80,000 workers in the dyeing and finishing industry in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Scotland. It arises out of a proposal by the operatives that com-pulsers collective piece-work be established throughout the industry.
'The employers' organization. the Allied Ansociation of Dyers, Bleachers, Finishers, and Printers, intimated that they could not compel the various sections or individual members who did not wish to do so to establish collective piece-work. The trade unions thereupon ap proached the employers in each of the sectiofial reference boards, who not prepared to negotiate thout discussing the questions of Juvenile wages and the system of paying adolescents, and they were not prepared to enforce piece-work rates where firms were unwilling to make the change, Deoisive -action is expected Thursday next—Reuter.
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