The Cotton Factory Times. — 1915-04-16 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

WAR-TIME. of the carriage and could not from there two whether the mule w. acttially stopped on the in- The W.vers' Committee at Ashtc.tincier:ltyne ou ward or the tv ur oted journcV• ges the workers not to slacken their agitation to Mr. Tiiylor, naa at. toilwit, a ~.it thing in get the Governrnem to deal with the food problem. do, eat it? 'Phey maintain that " had the Government taken The witntes admitted that it was, but repeated "P the food and fuel question with the same they have shown put, the carriage on the outward run. All he that he thrrught Ogden bait noted the lee, and energy and determination as in me to make him think that the carriage was on restricting the sale of drink, arid socelemton of output of Government work, there would have the twittery] run was that the fallers bad lwert been no necessity to hold protest meetings, and unlocked. If he had looked at the cam or at 410 prices of food would not have been name than ley. he could have won it on the inward run. Ntr. 'Parlor read ono of the regulations, whiah This portion of the committee's quarterly report exiireesly -forbid the starting or restarting of the Procend.''— mule portion w. between the fixed and We further maintain that in times of war it is traversing purts. a Government's duty to take over all means of The witness admitted having broken the regatta- production, distribution and exehange so 'as to firms. and that if he had observed them the seri- stoP certain untornPulous indvldivals from Making dant ronld not possibly have Irappened. He had profit out of a nation's misfortune. It is just . done the Mr. thing before—started the mule whilst important for Government to see that its people, he w. tn,,de It was quifm a common practioe. especially the wornen and children, are well fed, bowed, and clothed as it is to have a good supply Law Constantly Broken. of munitions and equipment of war; without any The tiudgei You have seen that Yourself ?--Wit- of the first three the other is of very little .e. In Yee. consequence of • large wastage of life through the Than yOll have seen the law eon:deafly broken? I present scar we hope, as some little compensation intin to those left behind, that the Government will imReexaniined, the witness said he had no idea nnediately t.kle the trawl problem and reduce at the time that lie was breaking a regulation. prices te within reach of the poorest individual in The Judge: Because you had not taken the the community." treble to read them. The other ioiner•minder, Walter Ogden, of 717, Oldham-road, Bard.sley, also gave evidence. In crow-examination. he said the only reason Inc setting-on the mule from ttm intik], was to save the trouble of striding over the carriage to get out. James Heywood, of hi, Hesse-street. Oldham, a minder at the Honer well Mill, said it was eustomary to stay inside if they wanted to move the carriage only a font or so. He had done it ' himself. and had seen overkokers do it. arid sometimes it won impo.ible to do otherwise. If the witnew had been in Howard's and Ogden's place he would have (ie,,, what they did if he had thought thot the carriage s. Stopped and on tbs., outward  Oress-examinvai, Heywood said be would not think of marting the carriage without looking at either the earn or lever unlees he wanted M oommit suicide. The accident would not have happened if they had taken reasonsble care to look st the earn or the lever. Amither minder at the mill, Herbert Maiden, of , Warti-rtreet, Oklhern, gave similitr evidence as to. Oh. clismm of minders at the mill restarting to mule . whilst inside, but added that he would not In no if the carriage W. Mopped on the inward run. It , was very seldom that mule had to be stopped to ithange strings. The ease for the applicant was then closed. Might Have Been Killed. Aibert Kearsicy, manager of the Honeywell Mill. gave evidento, to the regulations being posted at the spinning-room and the lodge. Since they eame into force he had nor known a case of a man starting a mule whilst inside. They might both have been killed. Prior to 1905, when the reg-ulaClone were made, moth an net had been clone, and the vritneas bad done it himself, lioward would have beto siiverely reprirnanded if he had lxith caught doing suoti a thing. mid in normal timos would probably have been discharged. John William liainbridge. spinning overlonker at the Honeywell Mill, also stated that sinee 1905 he ' had not hoard of a mintier setting on a mule svbilist ' he stood between the fixed and traversing portions tithe machinery. Seich was not a common practice. and the witnees regarded it as a very iterious matter.  Ms. Taylor v-übmitted that the evidence showed that the occident did nOt uTine Out of or in the courve of the matia employment and pmeeeded to it authorities in support of his contention. The Judge hold that although the regulations hod been broken the &Evident did arive out of and En the course of tho upplicanel employment. With regard to the other point of law, namely, serious and wilful misconduct, he held in favour of the respondent company, for whom he gave award with costs.