COTTON LOCK OUT

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1929, Page 5

COTTON LOCK OUT

LOOKOUT BEGINS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 29. The Lancashire cotton mills lockout lias begun. Eighteen hundred mills and half a million operatives are virtually idle. LONDON, July 29. Though the deadlock continues in Lancashire, there is a- ray of hope in the fact that while the manufacturing and weaving unions decline to consider a reduction, the, spinning section seems to work out a separate agreement with employers, who probably will be prepared to modify the present demand for 121 per cent reduction. The engineers and firemen continue at the old wages pending a. general settlement. Tho Broadliurst Company is one of the firms keeping its mills open on the basis that wages are not reduced. It is estimated that ten per cent of the Lancashire mills will maintain wages unchanged, and will keep on working. COTTON LOCK-OUT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. Hopes are aroused that spinners and cardroomevs will later in the week seek to negotiate a separate agreement. Ir. that event the employers are likely te modify the wage cut. Lancashire opinion is that the next step rests with the Government. Ic is understood Mr MacDonald is consider--inar personal intervention.