COMPLICATED DISPUTE
IN COTTON INDUSTRY ,
NO AGREEMENT REACHED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY", 4th January. Prolonged negotiations in the complicated dispute between employers and operatives in a section of the cotton industry were renewed yesterday after reaching a deadlock on Friday, but no agreement was found possible. The dispute concerns the proposed increase in the number of looms in charge of each operative, and the effect on wages and conditions. A stoppage in some mills on Monday is inevitable, but- great efforts will be made to prevent its spreading. The points still at issue arc regarded as of secondary importance, and the intervention of the Government may be sought. For some time the mill owners have been endeavouring to make fresh arrangements so that the operatives will each control eight looms. The workers have resisted all attempts to introduce the new system. The recent Parliamentary Committee investigation of the industry recommended that automatic and semi-automatic looms should be used.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 January 1931, Page 2
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