Negotiations between the employers and operatives in the cotton industry
are to be renewed. On Wednesday the operatives accepted the employers' invitation of March 80th to a new conference. Mr. J. Bell, the secretary of the United Textile' Factory Workers' Association, said that the operatives committed themselves to no principle; The conference will begin next Monday and will be concerned, not,' as the previous conference was, with the industry generally, but with the one proposal to reduce wages. The cotton industry has always been of all industries the slowest- to wrath, and we sincerely hope that the signs of patience and good will are not misleading now, even though the state of the industry is appalling: The seriousness-of the crisis is indeed the truest incentive to co-operation.. Nothing else can avail.- -
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