The Cotton Factory Times. — 1895-06-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

AND SESCLTS.  Out of 782 strikes and lock-outs, 475 were due to questions of wages. This is 60.7 per cent of all the disputes of the year, as against 58-8 per cent in the previous year. But the proportion of persons engaged in the wages disputes of 1893 was 89 per cent, as against 66 per cent of the persons engaged in all the disputes of the year. Of these 475 wages disputes the workers were successfal in 190, or 40 per cent, but these embraced no less than 654 per cent of all the persons engaged in this class of dispute, as compared with 17-8 in the previous year. 23-2 per cent of persons involved in disputes were partially successful, and but 11 per cent not at all successful. This heavy preponderance of success on the part of the workpeople in wages disputes is due to the result of the great dispute in the coal trade against a reduction of wages, in which the miners were successful. In regard to wages disputes generally, as measured by numbers of persons affected, the balance of success was largely on the side of the workpeople. Taking all the disputes, of the year, the workpeople were successful in 38 per cent, as against 41-4 in the previous year, but these included 385,581 persons, or 62-1 per cent of all those concerned, as against 20-6 in the year preceding. The operatives in the building trades were again highly successful. As usual, the report contains a vast amount of statistical information, and what is inevitable, a peep behind the scenes which hide the mind of commercialism from the world, and showing to what warm quarters the trade union official would be consigned if the wishes of some employers could be effected.  The Murder of an English Mill _Manager in Russia.  In the House of Commons on Thursday week Mr. Knowles asked the "Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs if his attention had been called to the report from Moscow, dated 23d May, which recently appeared in the Standard, to the effect that the frequency of riots at cotton spinning mills in the central manufacturing districts of Russia was increasing, that recently a riot broke out at a mill in the Ivauoe district, Tekova, at which a Mr. J. Crawshaw was the manager, with two English foremen, and that after the two foremen had held a crowd at bay for some hours, Mr. J. Crawshaw was beaten to death and his body mutilated beyond recognition; was he aware that Mr. J. Crawshaw leaves a widow and two young children, and that no news has been heard of one of the two foremen, who is reported to have made his escape after being severely beaten, that the manager's house was completely sacked, and that two governesses, one being an Englishwoman, received more or less severe injuries; will he inquire into the accuracy of this report; and what action her Majesty's Government propose to take in the matter. Mr. Knowles added that he asked the question on behalf of the elder brother of Mr. Crawshaw, one of his constitueuts.—Sir E. Grey: The attention of her Majesty's Government has been called to the statement, and her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg has already been requested to report upon the matter, and will make immediate inquiry. Until that report is received it would be premature to say what action should be taken.