THE LANCASHIRE LOCK-OUT.
[To THV EDITOR OF TER "Brzervron."] SIE,—In a letter just received from my son in Lancashire, he says :—" It is not only the 5 per cent. reduction that the master-spinners are fighting for, but their rights as masters in their own mills. For example :---A master-spinner received complaints from a weaving-mill to which he supplied yarn, of the bad work that a certain spinner was making. Accordingly, he spoke to the spinner about it, and getting only curses in reply, promptly discharged him. Whereupon, the man's fellow-workmen went out on strike until he should be taken back into employment, and the master had to submit. This is only one case out of many in which the masters could do nothing in their own mills."—Thinking this incident may be of use in elucidating one side of the question, I am, Sir, Ise.,
A. P. PEILL.
50 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh, February 181h.
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