COTTON DISPUTE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1932, Page 5

COTTON DISPUTE

EFFORTS FAIL

TO REACH AN AGREEMENT.

(British Official Wireless\)

RUGBY, August 27. / At Manchester the negotiations, in the cotton industry broke down hist night. , r . I*-'- 1 ‘ . The trade unions’ thereupon ordered their operatives to get Upon the strike notices. 1 =•? .*■ ■ •'' A complete ■ stoppage is not expected. In .a .nuhiber of the other districts, the response to the call -Is “likely to be incomplete. .* ' ; At present it is impossible to estimate the extent of the stoppage. The English • newspapers denounce . what they term the tragic folly of the Lancashire* cotton dispute, of which there;, is; no prospect of an immediate settlement. A' further two hundred thousand operatives, will shortly ■be idle if the present situation continues. >

ITALIAN COTTON WORKERS.

ACCEPT WAGE REDUCTION.

ROME, August 29.

The workers -in .the Italian cotton industry hare accepted a ten per cenj; wages cut. The cut is one affecting all but the minimum wage earners, who are exempt from it. . ■, This agreement is welcome as being n triumph for the Fascist policy, which, while forbidding strikes, safeguards c at the same time the lower paid workers. -This occurs at the time when the cotton-industry iA the other, countries is being paralysed by strikes.