It begins to be evident that the masters have defeated
the operatives in Lancashire. According to the latest intelligence from Burnley, the mills are reopening at the ten-per-cent. reduc- tion, eight mills having resumed work on Thursday alone. In Accrington, the hands are waiting for Blackburn, and in Black- burn the leading operatives are about to "take the sense" of their comrades as to an immediate submission. It is believed that the result will be in favour of yielding, the resources of the Societies being exhausted, while the assistance from outside is insufficient to sustain those on strike. A thousand households out of work require at least £100 a day to keep them alive and pay rent, and that only allows, on an average, fourpence a day a head for food and all other necessaries of housekeeping.
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