The Cotton Lock-Out • The calamitous dispute in the cotton
industry con- tinues. It.had been said that the employers were anxious to make a grand attack on the existing arrangement of hours and wages throughout the industry, but a statement issued by them on Tuesday does nothing to justify any such accusation. Mr. J. H. Grey, who was the employers' spokesman, was temperate and conciliatory. Some employers, no doubt, would like to put the hours up and the wages down as the only practical remedy for the present uneconomic conditions, but it is manifest from Mr. Grey's statement that these advisers have little influence. Mr. Grey asks earnestly for the reopening of negotiations. He repeats, what the Cabinet recently said, that some time there will have to be a settlement through discussion, and he asks why there should be any delay in trying to discover the material for it.
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