London, Apr. 2.
A general lockout in the Lancashire cotton industry is threatened, involving 500,000 workers.
phe situation is due ton mis understanding which has arisen at the Alma Mills, Oldham, where the employers and' operatives accuse each other of having broken the existing agreements, with the re-Salt, that the operatives have struck An emergency committee meet ing of the Masier Cotton Spinners Federation has now decided to recommend the members of the Federation to serve lock-out zotic2s to the whole industry to take effect '4n May 18—Reuter.
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