LABOUR FRICTION.
BALLOTS OF COAL-MINERS. GENERAL STRIKE FAVOURED. LARGE MAJORITIES. United Press Association Kv Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received July 26, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, July 25. Twenty-six thousand Lanarkshire miners voted in favour of a strike of Scotch miners, and twelve thousand against it. In a ballot on the question of a national strike, 46,303 Lancashire arid Cheshire miners voted for and 5,254 against. LONDON, July 24. The committee of Scotch master coal-miners is continuing deliberations at Glasgow. COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY. AGREEMENT TO WORK SHORT TIME. Received July 26, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, July 25. Mr C. W. Macara, president of the Internati:nal Federation of Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers, states that six of the leading European countries have agreed to short time for cotton operatives. Lancashire looms are not working on Saturdays and Monday?.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9552, 27 July 1909, Page 5
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132LABOUR FRICTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9552, 27 July 1909, Page 5
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