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from one foot to 18 inclies. A very large number of smoothed and ice- 

 scratched boulders were found, many of considerable size ; the majority 

 being fragments of Wenlock shale from the neighbourhood and Lower 

 Silurian rocks from the Snowdonian area. Amongst them also were 

 fragments of granite, gneiss, quartzites, flint, diorites, basalts, carboni- 

 ferous rocks, &c. 



J', port of the Committee, consisting of Professor Sidgwick, Professor 

 FoxwELL, Mr. A. H. D. Acland, the Kev. W. Cunningham, and 

 Professor MuNRO {Secretary), on the Regulation of Wages hy 

 ■means of Lists in the Cotton Industry. 



SPINNING. 



At the present time there are nine lists regulating wages in the spinning 

 branch of the cotton industry. The number of persons whose wages are 

 affected by the lists is about 55,500 — viz., 18,500 minders and 37,000 

 assistants. The card-room hands, numbering about 60,000, possess no 

 list. They are, it aj^pears, comparatively unorganised. 



Lists in Operation. 

 The Committee have been able to secure the following lists :— 

 List Where in operation 



1. Blackbm-n, 18G7 . . Blackburn, Accrington, Church, Haslingden, 



and Pendlebury. 



2. Burnley, 1867 . . Burnley. 



3. Preston, 1866 . . Preston, Bamber Bridge, Cuerden, Farring- 



ton, Gregson Lane, Lancaster. 



4. Bolton . . . Bolton, Atherton, Chorley, Farnworth, 



Hindley, Leigh Spinners, Manchester 

 (partly), Pieddish, and Tyldesley. 



5. Bmy, 1867 . . . Bury, Rochdale (partly). 



6. Hyde, 1872 . . Hyde. 



7. Stockport, 1867 . . Stockport. 



8. Ashton-under-Lyne . Ashton, Bollington Coarse Spinners, Droyls- 



den, Macclesfield, Mossley, and Staly- 

 bridge. 



9. Oldham . . . Oldham, Coldhurst, Chadderton, Higginshaw, 



Hollinwood, Huddersfield, Littleborougb, 

 Lees, Manchester (partly), Middleton, 

 Middleton Junction, Over Darwen, Roch- 

 dale (partly), Royton, Shaw and Cromp- 

 ton, Warrington, and Waterhead. 



10. The old Ashton List. 



11. The new Bolton List of 1887. 



Many spinners in districts outside those mentioned adopt one of the 

 above lists for their factories, and there is no doubt but that these lists 

 give a correct statement of wages for the whole spinning trade. 



Technical Teems usei> in the Lists. 



Without some knowledge of the spinning trade it is impossible to 

 understand fully the technical terms used in the lists. The followino- 

 brief statement may assist in grasping the nature of the lists. 



The spinning machine is technically called a mule. It varies in size 

 according to the number of ' spindles ' it contains. 



