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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1928. 11 WOMEN TEACHERS AND MATERNITY. RAMSEY MILL STRIKE SETTLED. Spinner to Rejoin His Union. DANGER OF LOCK-OUT AVERTED.

The threatened lock-out in the cotton SAFEGUARDING ITS FALLACIES. Effect on Export Markets. THE HEAVY INDUSTRIES. Mr. Oliver Answers Home Secretary.

but that was refused, and Lancashire played the most notable part in retusing that permission. If any of them voted for Free Trade at the last election and were now out cf eniplov-ment it was their own fault. Effect of Safeguarding. In 1924 Mr. Baldwin said Safeguarding would be carried out only special coses where people were able to prove a difficult case.

He tried an experiment Safeguarding and restored the dunes thst Mr. Snow den had removed on gloves, artificial silk, and other things, and the experiment had proved a great success, for those things were upvv cheaper, and ah the prophecies oi the uad provel to be untiue. rh.y were not bieetluic the easterner out weie was any desire or attempt to defy the Council's resolution of last March. The reason why there were so manv married women teachers in the Education Committee's service was that thev were in voluntary schools, from which the Committee Lad no power to dismiss them. The amendment was carried bv 47 votes to 36.

MUNICIPAL BANKS. Special Committee's Report. Alderman Goldschmidt presented the report of the Municipal Bank neual Committee, which was appointed in 1926. He said that the main conclusions of the cemmtttee appointed by the Treasurv to consider this same matter were summarised as follows: Mun-'cipal savings banks would provide some additional incentive to thrift, but the proportion of new savings whieh they, and they alone, would obtain is small in relation to the whole. They might tend to increase municipal ei-pfnditure, and would involve banking risks which might Teact unfavourably both on municipal finance and on the general credit sy stem.

We think that the general establishment of such banks within the next ten years would cause serious embarrassment to national finance during what is likely to be a very difficult period. We make certain suggestions regarding the Birmingham Bank, but no definite reeom-incnddt'ons. Consideration should he given to the pos-sibilitv making certain improvements of 'i CMstLiiit savings banks. In v.e-v- of these com I the Man-tiicster special Committee considered that PROPOSED TEXTILE CORPORATION, The First Mill to 'Joini. MR.

TATTERSALUS HOPES OF PROSPERITY, The first special meeting of mill shareholders antl loanholders to consider joining the proposed Lancashire Textile t'orporation was held last niaht at. Oldham, when a meeting of the Xew liecent Mill Company, Fails-w oi th, took place. Mr. F. Murgatrovd.

who is the liquidator of the company, denied the rumours that the mill had been sold, and pointed out that in October they vvouliblmve to deal with the uncalled capital and call up the remainder of the share money. He snul that in compulsory liquidation the shareholders would probably get nothing, and the unsecured creditors would get from os. to 4s. in the pound. Several questions weie asked on a.

tentative scheme drawn up for joining the Corporation, ami there was aome discussion on the amount to be paid to debenture holders and the unsecured ciediiors. Kventually tho meeting decided to support the st-lioine, but to press for better terms. Mr. J. Ii.

r.ittersnll. president of tho Cotton Yarn Association, in returning thanks, ventured to point out that there would he a great many meetings dining the ne-ct three months of a simihir character, and the Xew Kegent was now giving a lead what he believed would ultimately- bo for the good of the trade. They would itot havo given up the past six months to a scheme of that kind if they had not considered it would lie for the benefit of the trade. They were satisfied that under an amalgamation of even two million spindles they could produce at such a price that no mill in Lancashire, vvhtther it had boriovvod money or not, could compete with them in tbe market. The Corporation would be a strong position and tinder the guidance of wise head's and a -strong executive.

He looked forward' in a few- years' time to seeing 'mite a. different position in the American section of the trade. What they wanted was some return for the capital whitb still remained in the industry and full employment for tha operatives. Mr. P.

M. Oliver, prospective Liberal vandidate for the Blackley Division of Man- cnester, replied to the Home Secretary's plea for safeguarding the iron and steel trades, at a meeting of his constituents held last night in Moston. During the last week-end. said Mr. Oliver, important pronouncements on tariff policy had been made, both by Mr.

Winston and by Sir William Jov nson-Hicks. 1 I'tiese two Cabinet Ministers had been opponents in 1910 in the Xorth-west Division uf Manchester, and the old antagonism survived; for while the Chancellor "ot the Kvchequer sang the praises of I'ree Trade, the Home Secretary was fulminating against the mouldy shibboleths ot the Manchester a'ehool." The Home Secretarv's argument for the protection of the iron and steel tride was based on ihe assertion lhat Eiml.in.i imports annually 4,500,000 tons of iron, and steel vvhit.li could be made home. It was true that the imports for 1927 were i.403.COO tons but those isolated ligutes weie. abnormal. The imports of iron and -leel in 1925 amounted onlv to 2.719.CO0 tons in 1926 they wore 3,737.000 tons.

In the first quarter of 1927. it on and steel were imported at the late of 6.000,000 tons per annum, in the fourth quarter at the rate of 3.600,000 tons per annum, and the fiist quarter of 1928 at the rate of 3.200,000 tons per annum. It was clear, then, that 4,500,000 tons was an abnormal hgure, influenced bv tbe co.il dispute which the Government must take their share of the blame), and that 3,000.000 ions was about the norma importation. 1 Furthermore, if foreign iron and steel tould be excluded, what would be the effect on employment in England A piominent shipowner had told the Home that it would mean the emplov- ne i.i rtrv, iKciv uj e.tr.i men in twelve mouths. But an equally prominent ironmaster.

Mr. David MaeMillan, of Glasgow, had declared that 4.500.000 tons of iron and steel, produced in this country, would give full-lime employmentt only 50.000 men and 3.000.00J tons, the noinml importation, would emplov onlv 33,000 men. Then, iron and steel were the vital raw material and basis of a large part of our export trade. According to the Balfour Committee, 60 to 70 per cent of the total home production of commodities containing steel was for export in finished articles. 'No other country annroached this record in exports, because no other countrv clung to "uij vpi me jt aiicnesier t-ehool." To increase the price of the raw material would endanger the export market: and to protect the non and steel trades would create havoc in the engineering and shipbuilding trades without auv corresponding improvement in iron and steel.

LANCASHIRE WILL BE CONVERTED." Minister's Prophecy. Mr. H. G. Williams, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, speaking at a Leigh Unionist Women's garden partv at Lime House, Lowton, yesterday afternoon, said that during the last seven or eight years the.

Lancashire cotton trade had passed through a. period of great difficulty and it had a dozen separate problems to solve. If he were in the Lancashire cotton trade he would give preference to India, our best customer, and in return India would give Lancashire the preference over the goods of Japan and other countries. It was no use living on Cobden. They had run for three generations on a certain fiscal policy and in the end it had landed them in a mess.

They had not only run Lancashire on that economic policy but had forced it on the rest of the commumtv to their detriment. The cotton iudustrv 'had got to think out all those problems afresh. Other countries were advancing in he-cotton trade while this country was declining. Mr. Baldwin before the last election told the people of this country that unemplov-ment would continue until we dealt with the menace of foreign competition, and asked permission to enable him to do that.

i manufacturing Cue armies more 1 bet.iuse thev were making tlum on a liiigcr scale. some day Lancashire would learn and join hands with the rest of the co'u-i-iunitt. and then only would be restored to our land. In the meantime we could not ot: seeing the great m.iss of It was a horrible business. Debaired iiom dealing with It because of demon plciges.

Mr. Baldwin was tackling the mat'er irm another point of view. Vndor the scheme which would co through the last lein-tulivv stage in the new session net the rates of factories would be reduced bv and the loss to the local rates would be met by charging motorists tourpence a gallon on petrol. Agiicuiturists would Unrelieved of alt rates on land and farm buildings, and the r.ulw.ivs rtlieved of three-iittartt rs of their rates, but the whole oi the relief to r.ulwtns -would go to stimulate the coal and iron and steel industries, then they would he able to resist lorcign competition Ihith at home and abioad. SIR WILLIAM MILLIGAN.

Sir William MiUigan. the eminent Manchester surgeon, who recently underwent an operation for peritonitis, was lat night teported to he progressing fav ourably. WITH A A charge of unlawfully wounding James I'dvviii Woodwood, of Hastings Street, is again considered by the -Manchester city magistrates vesterdav, tho accused being William Bow cock, labourer, who had been lodging with Wotxiwnod, imd Billings t28). of Aqueduct Anco.its. It was fated that at jildnmht last Friday (he pri-onei- forced their iuv into Woodwind's house and belaboured hitn with pokers and othei weapon, serious wounds on bis tie.

id. Theie had been frequent (iiiaTiel- bctWHen the parties, and a recular feud had dev cloned. After the tin; furniture in the house was s.tid t'( have been snutsbetT up. In M-ntcncti'il Ixdh i-i igniters to si months' iinpi.isoiiment, the Chairman. Mi.

E. C. Gate1-, then attempted alibi was nnt. believed, and thev weie lucky not to be accused of manslaughter. WORKING MEN'S CXHi STRl'CK OFF RKGISTf-R.

The Manchester city magistrates yesterday decided to siriko off the register the Eadinga'l Woiking Men's Club, Street, Opensliaw. after a long hearing of police allegations that the premises had been illegally used after hours for drinking purposes, and that mi cituuu dates when the police were watching non-ineuilers, including women, had been seen leaving the I'Diee under the influence of drink. Mr. Ci. S.

Cocgtin conducted the prosecution, and Uie inamstnites arn.ed at their decision after the lucmises- Mr. R. Walls, appearing fc.i tin- officials, said that the onlv occasion when women bad been allowed to enter tea, when a wedding party was brought in by two members. PROSPECTIVE LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR SOWERBY. At a meeting of.

the Sowerby Division Liberal Council, held yesterday at Hebden Bridge. Mr. T. Ci. Graham, London, was adopted as the prospective Liberal candidate for Sowerby Division.

Aged fiftv-seveu. he is a loin n.il-'st, and has had "a long evpei iciire of political He is a past Grand Master of the Manchester Unity ot Odilieilows, and is the Parliamentary agent for the society. The remains of the lat- Mr. Henrv Buzzcmi, of Grosvenor House, Sitretford, Manchester, silk merchmt, were cremated yesterday at the Manchester Crematorium. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET Exhibition Hall Scheme to Proceed.

A 7irominent Salford man who ha been intimately associated with tha negotiations with a London svidicats for the acquisition on a sixty years' lease of the site of the Salford Cattle Market for the ereUKui thereon of a Tiatles Evbibi-tiMii TTall vesterdtiv- told a "Manchester Uuardinu" representative that the project is definitely foiward. The rm.mciaL tin niit lr nnnmtatn jam! an issue might be anticipated during It was, tine, he added, that the extended option to take up the lease would expire on Ihe 17th but no difficulty was expecf-ed on this score, as there was confidence that the special committee of the Coiporatiou which hail the matter in hand would be agiee-ihle to still fuitber extend the option when application is uiada shortly. This will be necessary to enable ihe promoters to clear up all preliminaries. The plans of the Inhibition Hall, drawn" Mr. Ifobeit Atkinson, are at present exhibited at the Koyal Academy, London.

J. J. PHELPS MEMORIAL' FUiS'D. The committee which is appealiug for; funds for a memorial to Mr. J.

J. Phelps, M.A., report that up to date subscriptions leccived amount to approximately 150. It is proposed that the memorial shall lake the form of a bronze tablet with medallion poitiair of Mr. l'heln and the endowment of a J. J.

Phelps Memorial Prize at tha Imi.ersilv of Manchester, at a total estimated cost of 250. of any a-muint will he welcomed and will be received by the honorary treasurer, Mr. Manby Gibson, 58, Parktield Street; Rusholine. Other Manchester news on page 13.7 Counts' full implications of all this suggested free travel and Alderman Miles Mitchell warned those who were pressing for extension of the concession that they were endangering the concession itself, aiid that the ex-servicemen might suffer. All attempts at amendment were, however, defeated, and the Tramways Committee's minutes were appro ed.

There was a good deal of discussion about the proposed itontan Catholic elementary school, cl. Robert's, Hamilton Road, Long-sight. The promoters of the school, who provide the building, wish the scholars to attend until they are fourteen years old: the Education Committee, who pro-. ide the staff iri(l upkeep, are of the opinion that "on educational and financial grounds, and bavins regard to the fact that three Roman Catholic schools for children up to fourteen years of age already exist within a mile radius of the site on Hamilton Road, the school as proposed should be confined to young children." Mrs. E.

1). Simon, Councillor Wright Hobinwn, and other speakers made it clear that thev were not endeavouring to get the way of the school because it was a Roman Catholic school; they were merely asking for a standard of efficiency to be maintained for alt schools. The Hadow Report, it was pointed out. stressed the importance of i-eiuoviiig children from elementary schools at the age of eleven and sending them to another type of school. As the Hadow Report might reasonably be accepted as foreshadowing" the lines educational polu-j would follow in the future, it would be unwiso to approve a school whose intention was to pursue a different policy.

Mr3. Simon pointed out that in regard to thre-e new Manchester schools the Board of Education had asked the Education Committee to build one department only to start with, leaving the question of older children to considered later on. Other speakers, whose case was stressed by Councillor Richard Lundv. urged that the self-sacrifice of the local Catholics in providing the buildings should be recognised, and that the scholars should be allowed to remain till thev wf.ro fnr teen. Mr.

Lundy moved an amendment that the representations of the school's pro- moters be acreed to subject to the plans bcimr amended to meet the requirement of the local Education Committee" Thcr, was a vc-rv narrow division mi this ih amendment being defeated by 48 votes lo 43. The Education Committee's resolution therefore stands: that in regard to this school the Board of Education be requested to consider the expediency of attaching such conditions to any approval of plans as will ensure that the school is rec.igmsed only for infants or for infants and juniors." MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS. Maternity Leave of Absence. After lunch Councillor Wright Robinson I moved an amendment to the Education Committee's minutes. The minutes stated that the Committee had considered regula-1 tions governing the absence of teachers on i account ot illness, with special reference to married women teachers, and had resolved that tho teacher concerned shall withdraw I from school live months before confinement and that, she shall not return to duty for a in tl her period of twelve months after con linement, the salary paid to be in accordance with the Committee's regulations governing absences of leather for personal sickness.

That in cases of particular financial difficulty the Committee may reduce the period of twelve months' leave of absence after confinement if. after medical examination, the teacher is found fit to resume duty." Councillor Robinson moved us an amendment to this that the teacher's period of absence far confinement should be three months IwL'fore the lurlh ot the child and three months after, provided she obtained a medical certificate of fitness to return to work. Councillor llnbuisou said it was his opinion that tho Education Committee was endeavouring by regulation to defeat the intention of the City Council. If the resolution were passed it would do a great deal to discourage married women teachers from having children. It, would mean the encouragement of birth control.

The Citv Council having passed resolution, the r.uin-nupn committee nau no rignt to try to "nurse the child or to interfere with the domestic arrangements of any woman. The f.aiK Countv- Council had a rule of five moniliV absence, and no complaints had so! i. ii ic--n received, itomnson contended that no woman after seventeen months' absence from an ordinary school could take up her duties as efficiently- as when she left. Alderman John Jones seconded the amendment, and Councillor William Mellor, in supporting, spoke of the Education Committee's resolution as an obvious attempt to thwart the decision of the Council. Mrs.

J. R. Zimmern pointed out that the modern advice to a mother was to go on with her normal life. Those who seemed so solicitous now about the married women teachers might turn their attention to the school caretakers' wives. The caretaker must be a married man, because his wife was expected to help him with his work, thoueh she was not paid for doing it.

The important hours for looking after a small child were before nine in the morning and after tea tho very times when the caretakers' wives were" employed and when the teachers were free. The Professional Woman. Councillor Dora Taylor said the Education Committee were not facing the question with a bias. They approached it with the assumption that the married woman teacher was going to be a professional woman for the most ot her life, and that, even so, her object was not to escape from her child. Indeed, some members were ready to agree that the experience of motherhood would be of special value in the schools.

Now the proposal of the Committee was intended to assure tho health and efficiency of tbe married woman teacher and her child. Remaining at home for some months would nut take married woman teacher out of touch with teaching w-ork and school methods. School methods did not change so quickly as that. Of the women who supported the amendment three had never had ii baby, and at least one had never hud to eain her own living. It was important to assure healthy" conditions for enectaut mothers.

Pre-maternal conditions were iiunicnsotv important, both for the mother and tbe child, and they should not be treated lightly. The teacher's occupation was not a healthv one. It was a vety streiuitnts one. and the Education Committee weie asking that the pre-maternal peiiod should be an eisy one for the teacher. Councillor Hannah M.

Mitchell said that the 3'ducation Committee had a right to insist upon fitness and clean bill of health, and beyond that they had no right to go. Alderman Titt said the people an the Education Committee who were supporting the Committee's recommendation were the people who opposed the employment of married women teachers altogether, and the recommendation was an attempt to get behind the decision of the City Council. Alderman S. Woollam said that when tho City Council decided to permit the employment of women teachers it became necessary to frame regulations concerning interruptions in their service, and that was all that the Education Committee had decided to do. Moreover, the Education Committee had got to consider the interests of the children in the schools.

There was one married woman teacher in the city with four children under the age of Sve. They ought to consider which was the proper place for that woman school or home. Could such a woman give her undivided attention either to her own children or to the children in the schools? No Special Regulations Necessary. Councillor Shena Simon said, in view of the fact that there were already 200 married women teachers in the employment of the Education Committee, the passing of the resolution Alderman Woollam referred to did not necessitate the framing of special regulations, as he had said. There was no pressing necessity for such regulations.

The Lancashire County Council, which employed 700 married women teachers, only reported four absences in one year due to maternity. To fix a pre-maternal period of five months was to create a difficulty, bpcaiisp onlv the teacher herself could say anything about the stage of pregnancy, and the Education Committee would need a medical inquiry and report. Councillor 1. iJiriey (chairman oi tne Education Committeej denied that there i I i I City Council AKsence Period. A COMPROMISE.

Disabled Persons and Free Trams. When the Manchester City Council lecently conceded the principle that a M-omaD teacher need not resign on carriage it was thought that the last had been heard of the matter. But a resolution of the Education Committee which was debated by the City Council yesterday brought it all up again caretakers' wives and all. The sponsors ot tne resolution were careful to deny-that this was an attempt to stultify the decision of the Council: those who opposed it made little concealment of their belief that it was precisely what it pretended not to be. The resolution, briefly, was that having a baby should involve five months' absence from school before the event and twelve months afterwards.

Councillor Wright Robinson submitted on amendment that this period of -seventeen months should be reduced to hix: three months before confinement and three after. This was carried by 47 votes to 2fi. The perennial bad behaviour of the hot-water supply at Gorton Mount, iho questions of free and milk fir necessitous persons, of free tramway navel for the disabled, and of the importance of establishing a municipal bank were also discussed. The proceedings petered out desultorily at -1 MO p.m., when ib was observed that theio was no quorum. UNSATISFACTORY HOT-WATER SUPPLY.

Councillor Annie Lee complained of the long-standing difficulty in supplying hot vvnter to the Gorton Mount housing estate by a. central heating system, and moved to refer back cert.un minutes of the Health Committed in order that they might consider making no charqe to the tenants for hot v.aler until the complaints are remedied. Councillor 1. 1'. Regan seconded the amendment.

Alderman W. T. Jackson (chairman of the Public, Health Committee) admitted that the supply of hot water on the notion Mount was not and lie had a d-'-al of sympathy with the suggestion that the chaise should he discontinued. But the matter was not a simple one. The whole the supply system was not unsatisfactory, hut only parts of it.

A petition from the (state which had been picsculed by Councillor Annio I.ce was signed by 31 people lily out of 650. Mm cover, tho faults in iho supply showed themselves intermittently. If it were possible to draw a (dear line of demarcation between houses to vthieh tho supply was satisfactory and ho-ises to which it was not satisfactory, it would be v-ry simple to suspend the charge where the seivico was defective. Councillor Annie l.ec said that if the matter wcie going to receive attention -ho would withdraw tiie amendment, and, uiih tho leave of the Council, the amendment was withdrawn. Free Milk and the Income Standard.

Councillor A. James moved to refer hack a ininuto of the Public Health Committee approving the adoption of a new scale cf income as a standard for the granting of free and cheap milk through the Child Welfare Centres. He complained that the new -caln lowered the standards, and was an unjustifiable handicap upon the work of the Child Welfare Centres. Councillor Dora Taylor seconded he amendment. The new scale, she said, was lenilv out of proportion to the needs.

Alderman Jackson said, the old scale' was a erv complicated one based upon the index hcuro of the cost, of living. It was a moderately generous scale, and" the Public Health Committee maintained it until the Ministry complained. The new seal,) had little or uo effect upon people who, under the old scale, icceived milk free, but it did attempt som. sivine in the case of people who, with larger incomes, were supplied with milk cheaply. hp had no objection to the mimito going back, but be did not think it back would have much effect because they vveri so largely in the hands of the Ministry, who bore50 per cent of the expense.

Alderman G. I-'. Titt said ho assumed that if the Ministry made their grant the Citv Council could continue to fix its owu shire of tho expeu.se. Councillor C. H.

S. Redmond said it w.ii most unfair to suggest that the Maternity Child Welfare Department weie doing -oinething to prevent children getting milk. That suggestion was absolutely incorrect. The old scale was continued long after the decline in the cost of living index figure. Moreover, the Department had never applied i he scale in any bard and fast manner, but had applied it very elastieally.

Councillor T. SI. Larrad supported the amendment, but said he thought the Public Henlfh Committee had done the best it could in the circumstances. l'he amendment was carried. Manchester and Revised Grants Scheme Alderman H.

J. Goldschmidt said he had received notice of two questions from Councillor Shena Simon. The first uas concerning the effect of the revised grants scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the tinance of Manchester. In reply, ho had to say that a sub-committee of the Tinance Committee had considered the matter, and h.ul piepared an interim report which was not complete. This sub-committee was waiting for reports from the Association of Municipal Corporations and from the Treasureis' Institute.

The second question i elated to the effect of the revised grant proposals upon the scheme to build a sanatorium at Abergele. The Finance Committee, he said, fully appreciated the gravity of the situation that might arise in connection with the Abergele Sanatorium scheme, but they felt that much more chance of success from any representations made to the i Soverument would be likely to come if joint were made by the Association of Municipal Corporations than if the Manchester City Council took isolated action. Shelter in Debdale Park. Several members having spoken at length on the need for a -new shelter at Debdale Park, Alderman T. Fox (chairman of the Parks Committee) said the city architect was already getting out tenders for the job, which would lie done in due course.

Councillor U. Hall rose excitedly to ask why the Parks Department had not said so when they replied to a communication from ratepayers on the subject. Alderman Fox: When Mussolini has finished talking (Loud laughter.) Councillor Hall: Well, you would make a srood Pontius Pilate. Alderman Fox: How human he is when you touch him on the right spot. Free Tramway Travel.

The Council at a previous meeting referred back to the Tramways Committee their resolution concerning free travelling for legless ex-servicemen, ''he Committee's minutes vesterday reaffirmed their views that the "privilege of free on the trams should be confined to legless ex-servicemen, the definition cf such being ex-serviceman having the foot or more of either of his lower 1 -nbs." asveral efforts were made vesterday to get the privilege extended. Cases were put for paralysed persons, for persons whose limbs "lost industry, and others. So many various were these demands that Alderman Tom Fox suggested -hat it would be well if the Tramways Committee were instructed to prepare a statement as to the I spinning trade of Lancashire has been averted. After a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Operative Spinners' Amalgamation in Manchester yesterday afternoon, Mr. Henry Boothman, the secretary, announced that the spinner round whom the dispute at the Ramsey Holhnvvood, revolved has atrreed to rejoin the local association.

This news was communicated to the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' I Associations, and impm ih. nthce of ihe Federation a of the "Manchester Guaidian as informed that circulars were to be sent to embers that evening requesting them to withdraw the notice that the miil would 1c vkcut Satuiday week, August 11. The dispute has been one of unusual character, because the strike which began at the Hamsey Mill on the evening oi July 17 wa one which the emplovers wcie not implicated except to the ex-cut that they refused to dismiss a spinner because of a disagreement between him and ins trade union. Although tbe rest of the spinners withdrew their labour on the giound that they lefuscd to work with a non-unioiiit, the man was not a non-unionist tho oidinary sen-e of the teim. He had been a member of the union until trouble aroe over the p.i merit to him uf oiue benefit, when hi-, wcie allowed to lapse.

Finally, when 1 he union ofbcials began to bring pre-sure to bc.ir noon him, it is slated th.it while exptesHiig his willingness to pay up all his airc.n- he refused To rejoin as a new member, although under the rules his membership had lapsed. Xegotiations then tool; plate between tbe local associations of and em-jiloyers, but proved ineffective, and as the employers refused to dismiss a man who had proved himself a good spinner ana with whom they had no differences, the other spinners gave the usual notice to cease work. The notice was post-dated two or three times in the hope of an agreement being made, but the negotiations were fruitless. -On July 20. two days after tho strike began, the Fedeiation issued circular ilium; a.

mass mceving oi au ot its members. The feeling" of the committee responsible for this was expressed in the following two paragraphs: To bring about the stoppage and dislocation of a firm's business as a means of determining some private dispute between its workpeople and their union is an unwarrantable menace, which on no account can be tolerated. It is of equal importance that an employer should not he penalised for retaining in his service an employee whose work and conduct are satisfactory to hun. That this view of the case was taken by the members of the Federation in general was evident from the fact that the mass meeting, which was held in Manchester last Friday and had a very large attendance, took only a quarter of an hoar to determine with but one dissentient, that in the event of the strike continuing all Federation mills should be closed down on August 11 and should remain closed until such. time as the operatives return to woTk at the Ramsey Mill." The circular issued by the Federation to its members last night was as follows Strike at the Ramsev Mill Company (1919), Limited, Hollinvvood.

We are officially informed by Mr. Boothman. general secretary of the Amalgamated Association of" Operative Cotton Spinners, that the dispute between the Oldham Operative Spinners' Association and the spinner named Acklev has now been settled and that the spinners at present on strike at the Ramsey willreturn to work on Monday morning next, the 6th instant. Under these circumstances you are instructed to withdraw the lock-out notices. Yours faithfully, Johk Pogson, Secretary.

It will be noticed that the date for the return to work, as given in the circular differs from the date announced by Mr. Boothman after the meeting yesterdav aftet-noon. HOW THE DISPUTE WAS SETTLED. Probation Officer Takes a Hand. (From our Correspondent.) Oluham, Wednesday.

Mr. F. W. Birchenough, secretary of the Oldham Operative Spinners' Association, explained, in the course of an interview, that they had never regarded the matter from the point of view of L.S.U. It had been a question of carrying out the laws and rules of the organisation.

In fact, he might go further and say it was a matter of maintaining the integrity of the Association itself. If they had allowed to go unchallenged anything like that which had happened they would have had some trouble ine tuture. Ho hoped there would never be such an occurrence again. In spite of what had happened, he was still of opinion that there was no necessitv for mat.tT in have developed to such an extent as had occurreu tins case. Mr.

J. Stafford was the intermediary between Ackley. the spinner concerned in the. dispute, and the Oldham Operative Spinners' Association. He is the probation officer to the Rovton and Chadrlerton magistrates, a position -which he has held "for nearly three years.

When interviewed this evening Mr. Stafford explanied that he went to see Acklev entirely on his own responsibility, and "that no" one had to hint that he should do so. vvas a one-man disputej' added Mr. Stafford, and it has been a one-man settlement." Until arriving 'at the house on Tuesday evening he had never met Acklev. He spoke to Acklev for a lonsr time, and eventually he agreed to join the 'Association, and thus end the trouble.

He carried out his promise at noon to-day. MILL TO START ON MONDAY. It was originally intended that work should be resumed at the Ramsey Mill tomorrow, but this was altered to" Monday when it was learned that the firm were not a position to restart until the latter date. Mr. Harold Cliff, secretary of the Oldham Master Spinners' Association, commenting on the settlement, said the employers were not concerned with the terms of settlement.

All they were concerned with was that the strikers at the Ramsev Mill should resume work. The unsatisfactory feature about the whole thing was that a mill had been closed and its business disorganised since Julv 17 although the smplover had nothing to" do with the tiouble, i.nd'theie was nothing in the arrangement that provided that this should not occur again. Of course, what had happened might be a lesson to the operatives. Mr. S.

3. Hammersley. M.P. for Stockport, said I have received the news of the settlement with pleasure. I felt certain that a reasonable view would be maintained and that the operatives organisation would realise that to throw a vast industry like the cotton trade into the throes of a stoppage of work just at a time when all the goodwill of the industry was required to effect the necessary reorganisation and economv in working would do no good either to themselves or to the industry ot which they form an essential part.

I trust that all sections of the trade will now bend their efforts to an examination of the many serious matters affecting the internal organisation of the industry, which require careful attention if we "are to maintain our position in the world as a cotton exporting country." here was no chante oi the adoption of hTn nf in" Iflirl I -efi-lalion to permit the establish-savmps banks, and that bv means of a local Act t7 w.ns,de,:l- Spetual Committee thereiorecon- no uful purpose would be vnvd, llle niall-er ani' rate tl.11 affer lne expiration of the ten year mentioned in the reasurv Commuter I ej.oi t. CVunei'Ior Dora Taylor characterised the i-pfi Ml Committee's report as a "spineles uiikms of its duties." Councillor George 1 1. -'3 moved th.it the report lie sent back with instruction to lie Committee to proceed with the business it was tailed into being to (ariv out." Alderman Bowie seconded this, and it was carried by 23 votes to 26. It was then pointed out that there was no quorum, and, with a good deal of business undischarged, the Council rose. MANCHESTER LIBERAL BAZAAR.

Raising a Fighting Fund. Liberalism in Manchester, which has been i-iively concerned for some time past with of raising its own fighting fund for the general election and for the develop- ii'rnt ot propaganda before the election, now has its preparations well in hand for the hit; baitiar which is to be held in two months for the some purpose. The bazaar will bo held In the Free Trade Hall, and will lat four days from October 3 to October 6. The bazaar will bo opened on ach day by a prominent Liberal who Is known not only by service to the party but by publio associations of a non-political character. Lady Emmott, Sir Philip Gibbs, and Lord Meston have consented to open it on the first three days, and on the fourth the honour i to be left for a ballot to decide between the prospective Liberal candidates for Manchester and surrounding constituencies.

A great variety of stalls is being provided, at all of which reasonable prices are promised in no cases exceeding those charged ordinarily by city shops." Something distinctly new in the way of side-shows is to be shown, and the Lesser Free Trade Hall is to be used for dancing displays in the afternoons and for short concerts in the evenings. The bon. treasurer of the bazaar may be communicated with at 38, King Street, Manchester. WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. Men Allege Inequitable Conditions.

The Mayor of Salford yesterday received a deputation on behalf of a hundred unemployed men who are in receipt of outdoor relief. They stated that the scheme of worn tho transformation of a 43-acre plot of 1nnd at Weaste into an eligible building site recently initiated by the Salford Board of Guardians had occasioned much dissatisfaction, as, they alleged, it provided that, irrespective of the amount of relief to which they were entitled, the men selected for the job must work thirty hours per week. They were of opinion that such conditions were inequitable, as a man who only received a few shillings in relief would be expected to work as long as a man who might draw-up to 2, according to the scale of relief, and they asked if Die Mavor could suggest some means of adjustment. In his Teply the Mayor expressed sympathy with the deputation, but said it would not be competent for him to interfere with the considered scheme of another authority, but he promised to invite the Guardians to allow tho deputation to state their case at a board meeting. MINDEN DAY.

Wreaths on Salford Cenotaph. Yesterday was Mmden Day. on which the anniversary- of the battle of Minden is celebrated by the Lancashire Fusiliers wearing red roses in their caps. In accordance with a more modern cutom. a detachment of Territorials from tbe 7th and 8th (Salford) Battalions of the Regiment paraded at the Salford Cenotaph, when wreaths were1 olaeed by their officers and by a number of relatives of the fallen.

Wreaths were also placed on the South African War Memorial. A SALFORD BERTHING MASTER'S GOOD RECORD. The funeral took place at Weaste Cemeterv yesterday of the late Mr. Henry William Hayes, whose death took place after a brief illness at his residence in fieedley Park Road, Seedley, on Saturday afternoon last. The deceased, who was 71 years of age, only retired in June.

1927. from the service of the Manchester Ship Canal Company as a berthing master, after over 33 years' service, on a pension. Besides the family mourners, there were also present at the graveside Captain Adam-son (assistant Canal superintendent and dock master! and many of the deceased's old mates, four of whom acted as pallbearers. There were a large number of choice wreaths not only from the familv. but also from the clerical staff of the docks offices, the dock master's staff, the tug masters and cTews of the Ship Canal, and one from the Manchester Ship Canal pilots.

A funeral service was held at St. Luke's Parish Church, Weaste. which was conducted by the Rev. H. Sargeant, B.A., who also administered the last rites at the graveside.

The deceased, who leaves a widow and married daughter to mourn his loss, was a native of Bnrrough-le-SIarsh, Lincolnshire, and he left his home at the age of 19 years to go to sea as a fisherman. He also felt proud of the fact that he had never been a day idle throughout the whole of his life, and had never been late or absent during the whole of the time he was in the employ of the Manchester Ship Canal Company. He was one of the best known personalities on the docks from Eastham to Manchester, and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. There were 302 births and 142 deaths in Manchester durine the week ended July 28. representing an increase of 51 births and a decrease of 57 deaths in comparison with the average weekly figures for last year.

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