The Limitation of Output of American Cotton London, Sept. 9.
The general committee of the Federation of Master Cotton-spinners to-day considered the question of short-time and decided to take a ballot of the spinners of American cotton on the question of closing down at 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Mondays. The Committee will meet on September 19 te consider the result.
The Committee did not consider further sectionalizing of the American cotton branch and this is regarded as indicating that the Committee, far from intending to dear with the whole of the cotton trade on an organized basis, is not even dealing with the spinning section as_a whole.
If the sectionalizing idea is carried out it will apparently only be with the object of limiting the output of a portion of the mills using American cotton, namely those producing more than they can satisfactorily sell. Thus it is clear that the Committee does not intend to invite other sections of the trade to join in reviving the old Cotton Control Board in a modified form.
—Reuter.
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