People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — Cotton Manufacturers Cut Wages. [ARTICLE]

Cotton Manufacturers Cut Wages.

Lorn.on, march 27.—A majority of the cotton manufacturers of Lancashire who are members of the Bolton association have voted in favor of livingnotice of a 5 per cent reduction in wages, and formal notice to that effect will be served on. the officers of the employes’ union on Monday. Under-a clause of the agreement entered into last year between the operatives and the manufacturers, a reduction cannot go into effect until May 1. The decision affects 80,000 cotton operatives and involves a weekly loss in wages of nearly $20,000. The action of the Bolton association will propbably compel th\> members of the Employers’ Confederation to give a similar notice. Interviews with leading operatives indicate that the reduction will not be accepted With a struggle.