Eighteen Hundred Cotton Mills Idle Following Deadlock London, July 27.
The Cotton Weavers Amalgamstion has definitely refused to con-tine the wages discussion with the representatives of the employers.
'The Master-Spinners Federation is now negotiating with the spinners and card-room workers' amalgamations in an effort to arrive at separate settlement.
The card-room operatives sub sequently informed the representa-_ tives of the employers that they were unable to continue the negotiations. So $00,000 weavers and 200,000 spinners and. card-room workers will be unemployed tomorrow. Thousands of other workers connected with the industry wil also be affected.
July 28, The negotiations in the Lancashire cotton industry over the proposal of the employers to reduce wages have reached a deadlock in all sections of the industry. The stoppage will be general to-morrow.
No further meetings have been ar~ ranged.
The cotton manufacturers a nounce that the mills will open tomorrow at the reduced rates of wages, but all the cotton operatives unions, except those of the engine-men and firemen, have forbidden! their members to work.
The story of the abortive neg tions is told in a long statement tissued by Sir Horace Wilson, Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, revealing that an important section, of the manufacturing operatives w not empowered to negotiate for a wage reduction, whereupon the operatives joint committee dissolved.
'A spokesman of the employers today issued a statement re the fact that the representatives of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.