MANCHESTER COTTON OPERATIVES.
MASTERS' COUNTER OuFER
DECLINED.
PROBABLE LOCK-OUT.
Received May 3, 11.5 p.m. * LONDON, May 3.
The joint conference of Manchester operatives asked that 5 per cent, re-
duction in wages be postponed for a ,year, the operatives undertaking not to apply for an advance. The masters made a counter offer, which the operatives declined. It is expected that the masters will issue a month's notice.' or crete a lock-out unless the reduction is accepted.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10035, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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76MANCHESTER COTTON OPERATIVES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10035, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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