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Show MUSTER sfHIKE M SETTLEKNT MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 1C Tho prevailing opinion tonight is that tho adjourned conference ou Friday will confirm the agreement for a truco between tho cotton mill owners and tho operatives along the lines outlined out-lined at a conferenco today, at which Sir George Aakwith. representing tho board of trade, was prosent. The employers have demanded, and tho men apparently are willing to give assurances, that thero will be no further fur-ther striko on tho non-unionist question ques-tion within a stated period, Jt Is expected ex-pected that the mills will resume work on Monday after three weeks of idle-ncsp idle-ncsp The operatives aro beginning to feel the plncb of poverty nnd tho news of a probable settlement has been received re-ceived everywhere? with rejoicing, while the employers aro almost equally equal-ly anxious to put an end to the disastrous dis-astrous state of affairs, which has al- |