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Show H' English Workers and B . Their Employers Are B About to Agree H Manchester, Eng.. Jan. 17. The H proposals made to tho employers and H workers at the cotton trado confer- Hj ence by Sir George Askwlth, r4pre- H- i renting tho hoard of trade, appear K likely to put an end to tho industrial H war which has been so costly to B both sides. H Neither side, under thc terms of B tho proposals, shall bo entitled to B take action on tho question of tho H employment of non-unionists which H shall involve thc stoppage of tho ma- H chincry of th0 mills, without giving H six months' written notice H Should the provisional settlement H ho agreed to, tho mills wou)d rc- H open January 22. H An agreement between the cmploy- H ors and men, If it is eventually rntl- H fled, will bo another victory added H to the list of those won hv Sir George H Askwlth, tho recognized British H "strike cottier." H Tho three wcoks stoppage of tho H milla has cost $30,000,000. Tho op- H oratSvo3 have lost 53,000,000 in wages H and tlio spinners, who have been on H half-pay since tho lockout began, H have sacrificed about $1,215,000. H Tho tradosunions have spent $1,- H J 050,000 in strike pay. Hh 1 London, Jan. 17. As a result of H meetings between tho coal owners H and minors hold at Birmingham thc H differences between the oraployors H aQd workers,. -which aro mainly con- H ncctcd with tho settlement of a fixed H- minimum wage, have been narrowed B Jawn, particularly ,s rejgards thc H English coal fields, and an early set- H tlement may, now be looked foe The H i d6puto affects about .100,000 men. U oo |