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Show k LOCKOUT I ENGLAND Thousends of Workers in the Cotton Factories Arc Idle Manchester. England, Oct 1. The Federation of Master Cotton Spinners Spin-ners today declared a lock-out of lio,-o'0 lio,-o'0 operators -and at noon-closed th- doors of the 700 mills owned by lis members. Tills tying up of the Lancashire industry in-dustry Is the result of a trivial dispute, dis-pute, arising from the discharge of a single employe at the Fern mill In Oldham. The total number of men idle in England as a result of differences differ-ences between employer and employe is now 200,000. 1'nless Geo. Rankin Alnsmlth. cump troller general of the commercial labor la-bor and statistical department of the board of trade, is successful in his effort to arrange n settlement of tho latest quarrel, hundreds of other workinginen will be without employment employ-ment next week 1 |