The Arbitration Board held its first sitting at the Manchester
Town Hall on Wednesday. It was arranged that the Master Cotton Spinners' Associations and the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Associations would give their evidence separately. The operatives, on the other hand—we suppose—because of their more rigid organization, will state their case collectively. The hearings are to be private. We cannot leave this subject without welcoming enthusiastically the idea which the mediator contrived to insert in his final statement—that a Joint Consultative Committee should be set up, to ensure that all major disputes in the cotton industry shall auto- matically go to arbitration. Here is that same principle which all those who work for the peace of the world are striving to make permanent in international affairs.
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