London, Oct. 12.
'The danger of a stoppage of 170,- 000 Eaneashire cotton operatives next week has become a real one in consequence of the deadlock arising: from the employers' notice of ro-duction of wages by 154 per cent.
The president of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Asso-dations to-day said that an agreement was as far away as it had ever bees Manufacturers with orders on their books ave expediting deliveries of yarn and endeavouring to get three or four week's supplies "in hand, The main hope at the present time of averting a stoppage lies in the intervention of the Minister of Labour, Sir Henry Betterton, who has invited the parties to the dispute to send representatives to a meeting at Manchester to-morrow under the presidency of an official of the Ministry.—Reuter,
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