Rather than improve, the seems to have taken a turn for the worse at With.ll. Mews. Marriage and Pinnock's Withnell Mill, which has been running only from light to dark for the past month, has been stopped all week, Lout it is hoped to restart on :Monday neat. Messrs. riirtwistl

Ag leourzn Vaticat.—The isolation of Ribcheater hue led to difficulties in the registering of mill workers for unemployment insurance. Originally it became necensery for these operatives to tramp to the nearest Labour Exchange at Longridge, but by a mutual arrangement a special

Several women vrere knocked down and injured by a runaway horse in Heywood on Tuesday. The horse took fright in trmgford-street, and dashed into York-street, on to the footpath. where a queue of about 150 women were to sign on for unemployment benefit. Fame entitled among the wo

Some pointed remarks on the subject of the cotton planters and the cotton crop are made by "The Textile Amerman," which states that again the cry has gone out from the cotton fields about too big a crop this year, with a falling price. The cotton planters are repreeented as bein

The holidays at many mil's have been greetlY extended owing to the trade depression, and the Position of very many families has teen worse than at any Christmas for very many Nears. While on ihe surface there appears no sign of improvement, the opinion was expressed at the Cotto

The position is still as bad as ever, and nothing but a gloomy outlook prevails. Half-time still con ti ni , i n the majority of casos, with a sprinkling of instances where there aro only the, days a fortnight. Christmas celebrations and do not appear to bane been interfered wit

the wo will - They aro every manufacturer. The d'overnment decided during the war that it was not good to have thouaands of operatives walking the streets for a week at a stretch. It is better to have some work every week. The unions have been hard hit. Good may come out of that

A Regular Rush Shop. (el leeks was always known as being a gradely rough shop. One minder had a fresh little piecer started one morning, and during the morning hearing a shout, looked towards the jinny end, where his piecer stood. This worthy . made some mystio signs known to mi

Mill notation in full swing. Suggestion from Chamber of Commerce for return of 55 hours week. Mr. J. H. Whitley advocated Industrial Council in ! cotton trade. Strong demand in “C.F.T." for equal wages for cardroom men and spinners. American cotton operatives agitate against ove

When the organisations of employers in the ootton industry announced II few weeks ago th.:l) they were not prepared to participate in a scheme for contracting out the new Unemployment Insurance Act the operatives' organisations recommended their members to register themselves fo