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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
ed that humerous masters are giving notice to the works people that their mills will be entirely closed as soon as their present stock of cotton is exhausted. In Preston the masters having given notice of a reduction of 7 ½ per cent in the wages pard to their spinners, the latter have determined on a strike, although support in this suicidal course can hardly be expected from fellow-workmen who are on the verge of severe want. A member of Parliament on cotton and the war. Mr. Edmund Potter, in the course of an address at Carlisle, where about five thousand working people are usually employed in the cotton business, remarked as follows, I need hardly, perhaps, tell you of the position in which we are how with regard to cotton. We get, or have got, eighty five per cent, of our cotton from America; but you know that unfortunately the Americans are at war among themselves, and we are not getting a bale of cotton from them; on the reverse, they are actually buying cotto