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INDIAN COTTON DUTIES
PROLONGED. STRIKE ENDING.
EFFECT OF NEW REGULATION.
(Reuter.)
BOMBAY. December 1.
Thc prolonged strike, owing to a re-
duction of wages, involving all tho Bom-
bay cotton operatives, numbering about
150\000, which has dragged on since
mid-September, is likely to end imms-'
dintel?., as the result of the announce-
ment made to-day that tho Government
of India has suspended tho excise duty
on cotton goods manufactured in India.
Millowners have consequently restored
thc former wage» of operatives, who ar«
expected to resume forthwith.
IMPRESSIONS IN BRITAIN.
(Router.) '
LONDON, December 1.
Following a private conference -of the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, the
Federation, of Master Cotton-spinner*'
Associations, and the Cotton-spinners
and Manufacturers' Association, in re-
gard to the' suspension of the Indian
cotton excise duty, a joint statement
was issued to-day. expressing the hope
that the forthcoming abolition of the
duty would assist the Indian cotton in-,
dustry to overcome itjt difficulties, and
trusting that when the finances, of India
permit, thc import duty on Lancashire
cotton goods will also be reduced, and
the future needs of thc Indian mnrket
be met increasingly by her own manu-
facturers in their claçs of produce, and
by Lancashire in tho types upon which
she will naturally concentrate.
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