11 FEBRUARY 1893, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIC]

Siu,—Allow me to point out an error into which your writer, in the Spectator of February 4th, on the lock-out in Lanca- shire, seems to have fallen. The notice of reduction in wages extended to card-room hands, although they probably would have submitted to the reduction, had the " spinners "

not prevented the mills working by refusing to work.—I am,