The Cotton Factory Times. — 1905-11-10 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

VOICES FROM THE SPINDLE  AND THE LOOM.  OLDHAM.  The New Employers' Official.—Mr. John Pogson, late assistant secretary to the Oldham and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Association, commenced his new duties on Monday as assistant secretary to the Oldham Master Cotton Spinners' Association.  Accident to a Spinner.--A volunteer, Fred Sommers (22), of 16, Slater-street, etuployed by the Pine Mill Company, was practisiiig in the gymnasium at the Drill Hall about 9 30 on Tuesday night, and was vaulting over a wooden horse when he slipped and fell, fracturing his leg. He was removed to the Oldham Infirmary in the horse ambulance.  The Late Mr. J. B. Wild.—Messrs. S. Seville, T. Airey, J. Chapman, and Jos. Chadwick, directors of the Greenacres Spinning Co.; Mr. R. Gorbutt, manager; and Mr. H. B. Tither, salesman and secretary, attended the funeral on Wednesday week, at the Chadderton Cemetery, of Mr. J. B. Wild, a director of the Greentvcres Spinning Co., and late inside manager of the Werneth Mills, Manchester-street.  Minder's Suicide.—An inquest was held at the Town Hall, on Wednesday afternoon week, on the body of George White, a minder, aged 55 years, of 440, Ashton-road, who was found drowned in the lodge of the Earl Mill, Ashton-road.—Hannah White, widow of the deceased, said she last saw her husband alive at 1 45 on Sunday afternoon, when he left home, saying that he was going out and would not return. He had never said that he intended to commit suicide.—Evidence having been given as to the body being recovered from the water lodge of the Earl Mill at noon on Tuesday, a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned.  New Mills.—The mills in building in the Oldham district are: Laurel, Regent, Durban, Heron, Roy, Fir, Grape, Lily, Fernhurst, Mona, and Athens, which will contain close upon a million mule spindles, and some 50,000 ring spindles. The mills which are completely working, or are starting up machinery, are: Cromer, Rex, Malta, Baytnee, Asia, Bell, Cairo, Grange, and Soudan. These mills will hold about another 900,000 spindles. Additional spindles have been put down at other firms in the district. The increase in spindles will therefore be over two millions when all are at work. In a short time the production of yarn from nearly 300,000 spindles in the Royton district will be on the market.  Mems.—Mr. Fred Hague, carder at the Gokak Spinning Co.'s mill, near Bombay, is in Oldham just now on a visit. He was formerly carder at Castle Mill, Oldham, and went out to India about three years ago.—At the Swan Hotel, High-street, on Thursday evening week, Mr. Hamilton Wallis, of Manchester, who is connected with the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., and is going out to represent the company in India, was presented with a valuable watch by some of his colleagues. Mr. Wm. F. Parish, chief technical expert for the firm, made the presentation.—The question of taking up additional shares in the British Cotton Growing Association will be brought before the shareholders at the next quarterly meeting of the Henshaw-street Spinning Company.—At the next halfyearly meeting of the Greenacres Spinning Co., the directors will bring forward the question of the repayment of share capital on the footing that it may be called up again if required. The £5 shares are £4 paid thereon, and the directors propose to repay £l, making the shares £.3 paid up. To do this a sum of £14,000 will be required. Company Matters.—At the Werneth Spinning Company's meeting on Tuesday night it was decided to fill up the vacancy on the directorate caused by the death of Mr. Samuel Wrigley. The directors recommended in their report " that the vacancy be not filled up," but the directors' report was passed with this exception by 17 votes to 10. No action was taken towards appointing a successor to Mr. Wrigley, it being understood that this will be done at the next half-yearly meeting.—At the quarterly meeting of the Boundary Spinning Company on Tuesday night a short diecussion took place on the question of giving further support to the British Cotton Growing Association, its claims being strongly advocat.3d by a few of the shareholders. Mr. Joseph Mills, who presided, stated that the company had subscribed the first £1 per 1,000 spindles. It was resolved that the directors be recommended to make a further subscription to the association.— The directors of the Nile Ring Spinning Company are recommending a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year, it being stated that it is the first paid by the company since its formation six years ago.  Mr. Shackleton, M.P., on Temperance.—Mr. D. J. Shackleton, M.P., secretary to the Darwen Weavers' Association, was a speaker at the annual festival, on Saturday evening, of the Oldham and District Band of Hope Union. He spoke at some length on the drink evil. They were spending, he said, as much in drink annually as would house the working men in Lancashire in comfort. It had cost Lancashire £110,500 to build a home for the people who had been turned out as wrecks through drink. If that expenditure would rescue any of those people he did not begrudge it. He trusted that they might do something in connection with their trade union meetings to assist temperance people in their work. They could do something in that direction by the trade union meetings being held outside public-houses. He hoped that the churches, chapels, and other bodies having rooms at their disposal would assist trade unionists by lending them a room to hold their meetings in, and thus save them from having to hold their meetings in public-houses. Mr. Shackleton also made reference to weekly savings clubs. Be said no man who joined a club held at a public-house had a right to send either his wife or child to pay his contributions. Be asked them to give preference to those savings clubs held outside the public-house. Alluding to the Labour party and their attitude towards the temperance question, he said that if all the political parties of this country were as right on temperance as the Labour men were, he did not think they would have been holding that meeting that night. Ten of the fourteen Labour representatives in Parliament were teetotallers.