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COTTON TRADE CONTROL.

PROPOSAL REJECTED."

The Mastor Cotton Spinners' Federn tion at Manchester, on July 31st, rejected the proposal to establish an advisory council to control the industry, with a view to coping with the present depres-

sion,

The question on the ballot-papers, was "Are you in favour of the prin- ciple of establishing an advisory council for the cotton industry (consisting of presentatives of the existing "Master Catten Spinners', Cotton Manufacturers and Operatives' organizations), with full) power to control production and to impose penalties upon firms who do not carry out ity instructions?" The voting in favor of the council was 25.39 per cent of the membership of the federation; against, 58,60; while 17.00 did not reply. These voting in favour of the council own 14,278,000 spindles: and those against own a1,879,000 spindles,

SEPTEMBER 6гa, 1995.

THE SO. S. SIGNAL IMPORTANT NOTICE BY BOARD-OF TRADE.

The British Board of Trade has issued the following notice regarding the trans- mission of the Distress Signal (8.0.8) to all ship owners, masters and operators

It has been brought to the notice of the Board of Trade and General Post Office that the Distress Signal (8.0.S.) may fail

art the attention of watchers when it (1) in congested arens; (2) at very long made at the normal rate of signalling

terference is experisuged from atmos ranges in the high seas, and (3) when in- pherics.

Experience indicates that the prolonged, lashes (T.T.T.) which are used when transmitting the Safety Signal laid down by the Safety of Life at Sen Convention are distinctive even when heard in con- junction with other signalling, and the Departments are advised that if special stress is given to the three long dashes (0) in the Distress Signal the difficulty ex-

On the figures being reported to the perienced by watchers will be obviated or general committee of the federation, they at least reduced passed a resolution, with one dissoutient, | The first S.0.5. Signal (..)

.)

that no further aétion be taken by the should therefore, be transmitted for one federation in the matter.

minute at a rate of about five words, de,

The proposal of an advisory council was about eight repetitions of (. the outcome of a series of sittings of a) per minute, special attention being provisional emergency committee of which riven to the sending of long clear dashes. Sir Charles Macara, formerly head of the called to the great importance of obtain

The attention of all operators is also War Cotton Control Board, acts as chairing an absolute cution of all other man. This committee concluded that only signalling in the region of the distress a drastic line of action could save the signal at the earliest possible moment cotton industry from a state of affairs The greatest discretion and brevity should which everybody admits to be' ruinous," but be used by all concerned when repeating that existing organizations are precluded a distress call or in asking or giving in. by their own limitations from effectively formation regarding it."

dealing with the crisis. It claimed that only a council consisting of representa-

.is

tives of employers and operatives in the THE FUTURE OF WIRELESS spinning, weaving, and other sections of the trade could possibly suffice, and it proposed that such a council should be armed with powers to control production and to make such a levy on the firms which found it worth their while to take other, courses, as for instance producing greater quantities than the council deems wise, as would cover grants to mill owners and operatives who comply with the orders.

laying

Sir John Denison Pender, the Chairman of the Eastern Telegraph Company, at a meeting referred at some length to the question of wireless competition. Italy he pointed out the home of wireless tele graphy, was at the moment fonting n company with a capital of the equivalent cables between Ita'y and North and South of £2,000,000 for the purpose America while American Companies are There is no conflict as to the serious nature also entering into active competition with of the situation with which the industry to supplement their existing lines, Ger. each other for the laying of larger cables in faced. Careful inquiries in Manchester nud big cotton manufacturing towns such may also was agtively engaged in nego- as Bolton, Ohlhan, Blackburn, Preston, of cables and extending those she had prior tiations for relaying the extensive system. Burnley, Stockport, Stalybridge, etc.,

to the War. Shareholders might therefore show that, so far from there being signs rest assured, he thought, that the sagacity af improvement, affairs are getting of America, the instinets of worse. Bolton, which is the centre of the of Germany, the

aspirations of fiue spinning aren, has probably suffered Italy, and the prudence of British and least, because it has almost a monopoly, Colonial Governments would not allow vet heavy losses are privately reported in them to risk respectively the expenditure of vast sums of in cable enterprise unless they were confident that the cable stems of communication all over the civilised world must continue. At the same time the tward held the opinion that they should be noeinted with all glasses of teles graphic communication and with that tious for wireless Urence for full-powered object they were naciated with applica stations. in

Great Britain, India and China.

the American sections of which Oldham is the centro.

Mr. H. Lyncham, öne of the best-known cotton men in Oldham, has publicly 'affirmed that some of the finest mills have lost anything from £100,000 to £250,000 This has been assailed as an exaggeration, hat Mr. S. S. Hammersley, addressing the Ansties" Federation, nid: have lost an amount of capital computed at £100.000.000,"

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"THE DISCONTOGEJELLSCHÄFT.

«The idea of no advisory council is as forcely opposed as it is strongly support. ed. Lenders Jike Mr. William Howarth, who, besides being chairman of Fine Spinners, Ltd., is president of the Bolton The Discontogesellschaft's yearly report Mastery Association, hold that control shows a net profit of four thousand seven- would be fatal to the individual initiative; hundred and eighty-nine million marks, which has made the trade. Mr. John and the payment of a dividend of 250 per Smith, "chairman of a big Steckport con-cent. cern, captends that wise control alone. can save the industry. It is stated that the Emergency Committee intend to pur- sue their propaganda:-Times.

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