17 AUGUST 1929, Page 2

* * Cotton When we wrote last week about the

cotton dispute we foreshadowed some provisional settlement by recourse to arbitration. Such a settlement is not yet assured, but events are still moving in this direction. On Sunday, representatives of the employers met the Prime Minister in Edinburgh, and, as a result of their conversations, the Wages Committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations, as well as that of the Manufacturers' Associations, were instructed on Tuesday to make arrangethents for a joint meeting with the employees' associations. It is suggested that most of the mills will be reopened by next Monday, but this view appears to us a little sanguine.