The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-10-03
TROUBLE IN LANCASHIRE, ENG
LANE, COTTON TRADE, is
THE CAUSE.
TRIVIAL MATTER CAUSE
Grinder Refused to Clean Machinery
ana Was charged---Workers
Decline to Accept Arbi-
tration

London, Oct. 2.-One hundred and
fifty thousand men engaged In tie
Lancashire cotton trade were locked
cut today in consequence of a dispute
over d trivial matter waich 1t sans
almost incredible could not BE set
tled.
All efforts 70 come to an agreement
however nave so far failed, and I'm
less some compromise II arrived 81
shortly no less than hail mil Ion
iaen viii be without work The tFpa-
bic which thus threatens complete
stoppage OF the cotton trade Of Lam
cashire for the second time In two
years originated as follows:
George Howe, q grinder at tie
Fern Mill, at Oldham, refused, on in.
structlons from his trade union. the
Oldham Cardroom Association. 10
clean machinery Of cotton refuse,
| work which occupies not more than
q few minutes day. He was dis
| charged I'm retaliation the Cardroom
Association declared, on June II. m,
strike Of all IFS members at the Mliw
Mill Matters drlfted on, The,d1grf-
ers declined to accept arbtragSn as
to who had broken the ageement
entered into between thssemployers
and the Federation Of labor Unions
| last year. The Employers Fedora
tion, on Sept. 10, decided on lock
out unless the Fern Mill was re-
opened.
| week ngo the cardroom workers
3 amalgamation agreed To accept arbf-.
tration, and only tsse ulsestfsis "a
| Hove remained N dispnta Tire aslf
| ployerg insisted that the Fern NIL
should reopen without Howe, aI
| though they offered TO compensate
| aim II they proved to be in the wrong
III having discharged him, The work
ters of the anagamation declined 10
end the strike unless Howe was rem
| stated at the Fern Mill.
This Is the situation today. When
George Ranwen Askwith, X. c., Of
the board of trade went to Manches-
| ter as intermediary there was a joint
conference of representatives Of en-
ployers and workers, but 1t resulted
10 deadlock.
The lockout pay viii amount 10
about 100000 a week. a portion Of
which will probably he supplied by
the general federation of trade unions
The operative spnners' amalgama-
Ion has capital OF about $2.500,000.
and the eardroom amalgamation
abont 81 100000 in addition to the
l1eal branches balance.
The lockout two years ago. which
extended over seven weeks cost the
rade unions $l,300oo0 II the stop
gage is prolonged disastrous results
must follow. The suN,ply Of yarn
stocks, already low, will give out and
he weavers will be stopped
It is now estimated that 100000
ersoss may therefore be lille. No
one knows except the inner few that
the resources Of the masters fedora
ton are They are certainly encr'
: nous. Every mill closed Will receive
a subsidy during the lockout. In an
more than 40.0O1,0o0 spindles stop
ped today Sixteen millions of thess
!, are in Oldham,
The railways will be hit hard. Dur
ing the last lockout, trains alnos
by the hundred, were discontinued
The coal trade will also be seriously
affected. Small snopkeepers in cot.
on towns will suffer enormously.
= 1t will be difficult 10 find any bust
y ness or trade In lancashire wnicf
" will not suffer unless settlement Il
reached soon.