London, Aug. 26.
London, Avg. 2 rent which Dave, been ting dat Hopes of a cotton industry agree-opinion hasbeen' filled for day The Indian. 3 of all shades
ing the week were sadly dashed with comments on the British Gov-te right When & conference of 3e; jemment's communal award, which presentatives of operatives fas aroused reaver" interest employers broke up in Manchester. dia than any other, publication It now seems inevitable that the since the Simon report. threatened strike must begin tomorrow.
The Manchester conference has been proceeding for the last three days, through the la. tion of the Lord Mayor of that city, with a view to preventing a stoppage in the weaving section of the industry. It broke-up on the ques tion of the reinstatement of ing operatives and it is understood that the break-up is complete, The spinners rejection of an employers proposal for wage cuts amounting to 2s, 9d. in the £ has brought to a head the dispute between spinners and employers. The organisations of the spinners are now prepared to ballot members immediately on whether the wage cuts "should be accepted or the executive be empowered to nego:
'The employers' notices, of wage cuts still have three weeks to run but it is possible that if the dispute is not settled a strike of spiners may result, Aug. 27, Eleventh-hour efforts to prevent strike in the Cotton Trade have failed and to-day 200,000 cotton eavers in Lancashire went on trike against a reduction in wages and asking for the reinstatement of the men who had struck earlier against the abrogation of agree rents regarding the number of looms per. worker.
The strike began at noon to-da; Late Beginning at noon to-day the trine finds both sides firmly con-vineed that they are right The chairman of the Cotton Spinners Association has declared that the employers have gone as far ax they could on the "reinstatement question. He said the strike was table and they proposed make no move in the matter, The president of the Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation says that had the employers. taken the usual course of putting th application to the Federation for reduction of wages instead of togating difficult to say to what extent its protests are cased on genuine nationalist feeling and to what extent it ix inspired by Hindu communalist Moslems are seemingly beginning to realise the solid advantages they Ihave gained, especially in the Punjab, Sikh denunciations are vehement and based on strong feeling.
For the Depressed Classes, Mr. IM. C. Rajah has expressed" dis approval but little has yet heard from Dr. Ambedkar's group.
Opinions so far expressed on lochalf of other minorities are not a year's simple imprisonment. She was arrested on August 17 for disobeying the order {forbidding her from entering Bom-
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