Spread Checked by Differences Among Labour Bombay, Apr, 16.
The recent unrest among workers cotton sills in Bombay to-day ealminated in 20,000 operatives in twelve mills laying down their tools, This appears to be a result of labour leaders circulating leaflets recommending a general strike. po. 17. Events in the cotton-mi here appear to. be moving wards a general strike, industry, as a demonstration of opposition to. the double-shift system, which is gradually being introduced in the Bombay mills, A large procession to-day brought out the workers from ten more there are now 32,000 apers strike, Apr. 19.
Differences among the labour leaders have checked the spread of the strike of workers employed in cotton mills.
Fifteen thousand operate returned to work, while nine out of tie nineteen mills whose workers were on strike have resumed normal working.
The remainder of the strikers profess a determination to carry on the stoppage—Reuter,
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