| Show LI LIVING I G O ON BOILED POTATO P I Sufferings of English Cotton W cay ers Because of the Sharp Ameri American can Corner BANK TS WITHDRAWN III hl lawn and anI Arched Only II by Scanty Scant Charily sot ot Enough Cotton Special Correspondence London ondon Oct 8 While n few optimIstic Istle null owners In the tho cot cotton cotton ton spinning district ceon hopeful that time the distress caused loy by lack Inck ot of Ia mat ma tonal has hilA passed Its lis present con Indicate that the effect ot of the big corner In cotton whIch yielded I n profit of to Its 1111 s In Ne New York and New Orleans will be keenly felt elt for seine Romo lime yet nt l Ih hll have grown c citi Id In the cotton colton bU business on thIs side 1111 say that even Ien the tho b by the American Civil war when depended for tor practically her whole hole cotton supply upon the few fel ships shills able to 10 It get past JUHt the blockaders at 01 the fleet tens nothing compared to 10 the present ent As eighty ot of the worlds cot cotton cotton ton supply comes from the d Staten time the effect ot of the big corner was felt In England almost Immediately nt af after tel ter Its last spring Yarn jumped from eleven cents n a pound tl to fifteen amid the mills soon ran Inn only enough loons to till nil immediate orders I Of at course title cut the workIng week ot of the operatives from AI nix days to three or tour four and men Inen capable of lag Ing four looms had only two or three to look after OUT OF 01 TilE TIIE As the months went b by with wilh no Im Improvement provement In the tho situation the little curve out ot of the say v bit hy by bit One bank In Ina II a town where deposits from Crom ono eta penny up were sere received hod charge churco ot of more than belonging to the mill operatives but conic con ant shrunk this sum um almost to the poInt In ordinary times when the tho usual number of mills are running the tho LAn wen weater Vel ca capable able of handling tour four looms earns about 1525 1 a week Since Siner the cotton supply front the United Unit Id ed States began to tall these operatives have hae been lighting starvation wIth 12 a week NO FUND FUNDAs As AA no pUblic r relief fond exists It has hns fallen to the unions to whIch most of oC the tho operatives belong to do what they cnn can toward alleviating sonic some ot of the tho sot suf fering amid their tell ninny stories ot of discoveries In one settlement right In the tho heart henrt ot of the great grent cotton district hundreds ot of oper have hal been working onlY four days a week eek since 1 Easter and In an another another other town there Is n family or of tour four tourIn In which the tho mother Is n a cripple ono one son fon Is In the tho hospital and the tilt father her anti remaining son aon have hail less than three days work II a week eek for far months Al Another oth r fatally Is reported to have been he n reduced to balling 1000 for tor food m AT The Tho great Ineat distress found hy by the work ers rs unions Is III confirmed b by the trades tradesmen men In time the district In time thu torn ot of bury where the weekly payroll of M on one mill had been h en reduced from rom 2650 to less 1150 hy by laying oft anti where other mills milia have shat down don the shopkeepers report 1 a falling failing oft of 50 per ler cent In hi theIr receipts Almost the thu whole Lancashire tolls tells the story for the Ihl recent Liverpool corner In 1 cotton puts the mulls miliA which only this vu n net In the same Ox with those II pendent upon American cotton InK hag impossible nay from than tho spinners to their unfortunate tel fol Ion Although failure IIO mica has this Conner the Iho supply In III Instill still 1111 so list Ihal many of the mills prefer rj shut down for tor n while rather than spin at interval SOUP HOOI Na PO flo far nearly has been tiled 11 by time the toilet committees neat residents In the tho districts district have hac con cond money mid food and nt at the tho scup kitchens which have b been en estah lI hed In many places long lines or of hun bun gry gr Idlers willi to receive n a quart ot of soup lOUII with half II a loaf of oC bread An hat has distributed aver 25 cent m meal nl tickets this will KO go on all as long as the funda hold out olt but ot of course It Is IR only temporary relief relict and nOlI n neither redeems the Iho long no ago went to 10 tho n 1 nor nr makes tor mt r 1111 old cold weather is III not far ort oft Not time the least Iral important result ot of the present Is III time the loss tn n the Lancashire district ot of the tho weavers wellers and r last April large Inre numbers or of the have given apt III their homes homoR to 10 emigrate to America where the they hope to work In the mills those be ba successful tul there therl I is no nn telling how ninny macro follow folio I their example All the agree that their on only protection train repetitions of oC the tho present Iles lIe In empire grown cotton years ego alto time the Willi nas form formed ed I to In exp experiment with the plant on h oil all and time the n fl Rt el crop nol nets ex x Is IA 11 by experts to bo be excellent In quality Africa seems to 10 ho he best basi salted for Cor cotton eui and members ot of the ray that it If the government would the project with funds enough cotton could ho bo raised In this one cal eol on to supply mill needs COTTON IS the are con confronted fronted with the ot of what to do arrangement can be made to obtain the tho raw fill material from frem soil During the last 10 years the tho consumption ot of cotton In th the United Staten has Inc more than 60 per rent nail If the mills miliA to be built In America nt at the rate they are going up now note the Iho south wm will a ahome home heme market for Cor nil all that cnn can pro 1110 produce duce dure It 11 Is n fact that nR as asa a result tt of experiments supported hy by bythe the tho German government acmes ot of Neal Attica which IS 18 months Ito ago were there ordinary arms are noty 1101 plant planted ed cd with cotton |
