Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-17
Gigantic Strikes about 10 be
InaugUrated.
Englani's White Slaves Assert the
Rights Of Fresmen.
Troops Ordered from In
dia to Malta.
Complications in the Turkish Cabinet

LONDON, April 1.-THE notices of a
reduction OF the wages of cotton opera
tives 10 Lancashire expire to-day and
tomorrow. The refusal Of the masters
at Manchester to agree to a five per cent.
reduction, and their resolution that If a
strike occurs at any of the mills where
notice has been given OF a ten per cent.
reduction, the remainder of the trade
shall lock out at the earliest possible mo.
ment, leaves little hope Of averting a
struggle which will involve the stoppage
of TWO hundred thousand looms and six
million spindles, and will make idle no
less than one hundred and twenty thou.
sand working people,
The council Of operatives and spin
uers, after their interview with the mas
ters yesterday, resolved to recommend to.
the nembers that the association accept
the proposed reduction for the present
and to call a representative meeting OF
spinners for Sunday to decide upon their
future course.
The operatives at AcoriDgton and dis
trict, Church Harwood, Enfield and Pres
ton are wiling to accept reduced wages
aud reduced time, but there is 70 hope
of the masters accepting such a proposal.
The Blackburn and Burnley operatives
resist uncompromisiDgly; consequently
tonight 10 all probability will begin the
most gigantic strike and lockout tina. has
ever occurred in Lancashire.
Instructions have been Issued to the
operatives BY committees in the v%arioua
trades as to how to procsed. Who're no
notices are posted they will go on work
ing; where notices are posted they will
respectfully request the masters to re.
move them. If this request is refused,
they will leave their work as quietly as
on Saturday night.
The operatives are particularly en-.
Joined to encourage no rioting or misbe.
hayior anywhere. The looms no affected
by the strike will subscribe three pence
per week for the strikers.
The Oldham district is not yet affected
directly, but owing to the intimate bust
ness relations between Oldham and
Blackburn, short time, if not stoppage,
will be necessary in many OF the Oldham
mills.
Parliament separates for the Easter
recess under the conviction that the
emergency is not greater than it was
weeks ago.
News from the various csnters Of in.
teresti is not reassuring.
A semtoficial dispatch from Calcutta
says that the Indian government has re-.
ceived orders to send troops to Malta,
and the following regiments are desig.
mated to leave: The Ninth Bengal caval.
ry, First Bombay light cavalry, Second
Ghoorkas, Thirteenth and T~hirty.frst
Bengal infantry, T%wenty-fiith Madras
infantry, two regiments Bombay native
infantry, two Bombay field batteries, two
companies of Bombay ssppers and min.
ers, and two companies Of Madras sap
pers and miners. The infantry will be
brigadei with the British at Malta.
The assistant quartermsster and II e
commissary general have gone to Cal.
cutta to arrange for the reception OF
these troops.
CoSsTANTISoPLE, April 1.-THE con-
test in the cabinet continues. Ahmed
Yefk Efendi, president Of the council Of
ministers, rendered his resignation Mon.
day, but withdrew it after a long confer.
ence with the sultan and Safet Pasha,
president of the council OF state, and the
refusal Of Reouf Pasha and Mehemet
Pasha to accept the premiership, Ne.
hemet Ruchdi Pasha has been appointed
minister without a portfolio.
LIVERPOOL, April II. -. Darbyshire,
McKinnells & Co., merchants and ship
owners, have failed, their liabilities being
( estimated at 81, 25O. 900. They we're en-
t gagged chiefly 10 tina South American
trade, but had some connection with the
. United States.