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Show THE COTTON LOCKOUT. There Is No Prospect for Bettering th Situation. Loxdox, Nov. 14. The second week of the great cotton lockout opens with increased prospects of the trouble being long continued. contin-ued. There are 6,000,000 spindles working on full time, three-quarters of a million on half time, and 12,600,000 stopped. Tbe master mas-ter federation has asked the owners of spiu-dles spiu-dles working- full time to begin to shorten the time on Thursday. All have assented except the masters at Bolton, who spin Egyptian cotton mostly. They plead that their hands ar full of orders and their mill must work full time to fill them. |