It appears that the cotton yarns and goods manufacturers of 
France are forming an alliance with a view of underselling the 
English manufacturers in their own markets; the French manufac- 
turers admit that although the English manufacturers have better 
machinery and larger capitals than the French, they have been 
enabled to hold their own owing to the low wages paid to the men 
in France and they hope by lowering the wages still more to be 
able to produce their goods cheaper than the English manufactur- 
ers can. ; 

Mr. Bertel, mayor of Sotteville-lés-Rouen and one of the largest 
manufacturers of the place, was the first to inaugurate this new 
. crusade against the working classes; he offered a reduction of 3'/, 
pence per day; on the men refusing these terms they were locked 
out and they have now appealed to the International Working 
Men’s Association for help.