The Archive · 1928

The Leviathan Ashore

Minor Accident at Entrance Southampton London, Feb, 17.

The 60,000-ton liner Leviathan, the largest ship in the world, while on her way from New York to Southampton went ashore to-day London, Feb, 17.

After a scries of meetings at Manchester and consultation with the Manufacturers' Association, the Master Cotton-Spinners' Feders tion have decided to send a joint letter inviting the operatives' leaders to a further joint conference on February 21, No mention made of serving notice on the opera~ tives to terminate the wages and hours agreement.

Later.

'The operatives have accepted the employers' invitation to a confer-fence on February 21.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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