a week for two looms, the proprietor offered to give his workpeople three looms each, with a guarantee for constant employment until the end of next August, if they would accept one and a quarter pence less for the weaving of each piece.

This offer, if taken, would have raised their wages to an average of 14s.6d.a week.

It was declined, however, and they are now working, as before, only on two looms each, with uncertainty of employment, at lls.

a week.

Perhaps it is too much to expect that such things should die out all at once.