It seems probable that a temporary settlement in the cotton
dispute will have been arrived at by the time this is in our readers' hands. On Tuesday night the conferences over which Sir George Askwith has been presiding reached a provisional agreement. Work is to be resumed at once on the under- standing that there is to be a six months' truce, during which Sir George Askwith is to endeavour to find a solution of the non-unionist difficulty. If, moreover, he fails to do so, there must be a further six months' notice before either party brings about a stoppage of work in connexion with that dispute. This agreement was to be laid before the representatives of the various unions forming the Northern Counties Textile Trades' Federation on Friday morning, and it was confidently expected that it would be ratified by them. This result will probably be assured by the severe weather in the North, which is beginning to cause great misery among the unemployed workpcoplc.
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