SOLIDARITY GROWING EVERY DAY .sx Weavers' Opposition to Negotiations .sx ( From Our Own Correspondent ) .sx Burnley , Wednesday .sx THE solidarity and determination of the cotton workers in the fight against the more-loom system and wage-cuts grows stronger as each day passes .sx Reports from various areas to-day show that the struggle is extending .sx Nelson Strike Committee reports that a meeting was held at noon at Wilkinson's Mill , where 400 workers supported the policy of all out .sx A 100 per cent .sx vote was registered against negotiation .sx At a mass meeting of strikers this afternoon they voted solidly against any negotiations .sx The meeting decided to mass picket Hyton's Mill at Barrowfield ( about four miles from Nelson ) where they are working more looms on non-union labour .sx A thousand workers responded , and as the mill closed , they gave the workers a hostile reception .sx Barrowford workers decided that the mass picketing should continue and also carried a resolution against negotiations .sx In the Co-op Hall , Burnley last night a mass meeting declared for the strike committee's policy and a big number of volunteers came forward to assist in strike activities .sx The ballot on negotiations is proceeding throughout the country .sx So fierce and emphatic is the weavers' opposition to the employers' terms that local weavers' associations are urging members to vote down any suggestion of negotiations .sx In a statement issued yesterday , the Nelson Weavers' Committee recommended their members to vote against negotiations , declaring that " the employers are constantly breaking agreements .sx " and that " they will promise anything to get the more-looms system adopted , but later will do as they like .sx " The same attitude has been taken up by G. Brame , Secretary of the Clitheroe Weavers' Association .sx At a meeting of members of the Association last night he declared :sx - " It may be a long fight if the vote is not for negotiations , but it will not be half the fight that it will be for your children if the vote is the other way .sx " He urged all members to vote against negotiations .sx The Central Strike Committee are driving ahead to secure all cotton workers out in support of the weavers .sx SWEDISH STRIKERS HELP LANCS .sx Splendid Example Of Class Solidarity .sx ( By A Special Correspondent .sx ) A SPLENDID example of international solidarity is reported by the Workers' International Relief .sx A Swedish Textile Workers' Union , whose members are themselves on strike , has sent a donation of 75 Swedish crowns ( 4 2s .sx ) to the Burnley weavers , who are fighting the reduction of their standard of living .sx Thirty-four thousand textile workers in Sweden are on strike , and they have a bitter struggle before them .sx But they show their faith in the power of the international working class to win by sending a gift in response to the appeal of their British comrades .sx This should be an immense stimulus to the workers in other industries in this country , to whom the Workers' International Relief sends its appeal .sx South Wales Helps .sx From South Wales also we have the report that 15 10s .sx 2d .sx has been received , as part of the sum of 31 0s .sx 4d .sx collected by the Red Miners' Union in France for the relief of the South Wales and Ruhr miners .sx This , too , is a splendid effort .sx Follow the example of our foreign comrades and send a donation now to the Workers' International Relief , 29 , Theobald's Road , London , W.C. .sx The following is a list of donations received :sx - SIR OSWALD'S ASTUTE MOVE ON UNEMPLOYMENT .sx Special Labour Conference Demanded .sx Sir Oswald Mosley yesterday made an astute move in the direction of winning the Labour Party in support of his Fascist manifesto .sx The matter was raised in a letter from Aneurin Bevan , the ambitious Welsh Labour M.P. , one of his smartest henchmen to the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party .sx The letter demanded that a special national conference of the Labour Party , analogous in representation to the Annual Conference , be called prior to January28 to discuss the question of unemployment .sx The next meeting of the National Executive takes place on January 28 .sx Harry Snell , the chairman , assured him that , if at all possible , such a meeting should be arranged , adding that he hoped it would be possible to hold it early next week .sx GERMAN PROTEST AT GENEVA .sx Complaints Against Polish Persecution In Silesia .sx Geneva , Wednesday .sx - The Council of the League of Nations this morning heard a protest from Dr. Curtius , the German Foreign Minister , against the treatment of the German minority in Silesia .sx The German minority , he said , had often suffered in the past in Poland both oppression and violence , and never so flagrantly as at the last elections , when the terrorisation of the minority was obviously planned with the intention of crushing the German element .sx He referred to what he called " The Insurgent Polish Organisation , " which under cover of promoting physical culture and military preparedness , was in fact created purely to combat the German element in Silesia .sx It had a membership of 40,000 and prominent among them were many of the prime movers of the unjust acts at the recent elections .sx Brutality , moral coercian , destruction of property , were all freely applied to deprive the Germans of their political rights in Poland .sx The police rarely intervened , and when they did so it was against the minority .sx M. Zaleski , the Polish Foreign Minister replying , protested against the Council of the League of Nations being turned into what he called " a Magistrates' Court in a small village .sx " Admitting that the elections were contested " ardently , " he said they passed off peacefully in places where the German vote was small , and there was violence only where the German vote was large , showing that the German element was largely responsible for any violence that took place .sx Where Polish Civil Servants had been proved to be at fault they had been brought before a Board and censured .sx UNEMPLOYMENT JUMPS BY 18,000 :sx HOUSE OF LORDS PASSES " ANOMALIES " BILL .sx TOTAL NOW 688,003 MORE THAN A YEAR AGO .sx THOUSANDS TO LOSE THEIR BENEFIT .sx EIGHTEEN THOUSAND more !sx This was the week's increase in unemployment .sx The Ministry of Labour announced yesterday that on July 20 , 1931 , the number of persons registered as unemployed were :sx - 1,866,770 wholly unemployed , 681,912 temporarily stopped and 112,051 normally in casual employment , making a total of 2,660,733 .sx This was 18,044 more than a week before and 688,003 more than a year before .sx The total on July 20 , 1931 , comprised 1,960,483 men , 65,001 boys , 584,263 women and 50,986 girls .sx Since May 18 the unemployment figures have increased by 252,362 .sx On Monday night the House of Lords passed the " Anomalies " Bill , designed to strike off thousands of workers from benefit .sx VEHICLE BUILDERS' CONDEMNATION FOR " ANOMALIES " BILL .sx Glasgow Branch of the Vehicle Builders' Union have forwarded us the following fighting resolution :sx - " That the Glasgow Branch of the National Union of Vehicle Builders repudiate the Royal Commission of Unemployment Insurance , and condemns the Government for the setting up of such a reactionary body .sx This is a prearranged attack upon the most exploited section of the working class .sx Also it is a formidable weapon to be used for the lowering of the wages and conditions of the employed .sx " We demand that the Government do not proceed with the so-called 'Abuses Bill,' but that means be found for providing work at trade union rates of wages for full maintenance for the unemployed .sx " We call upon all sections of the working-class movement to resist any attempt to lower the already too meagre standards of our unemployed comrades .sx " There are over 120,000 registered unemployed in Glasgow alone , and 70,000 unemployed motor-vehicle , carriage and railway wagon builders throughout the country .sx Heywood ( Lanes ) N.U.W.M. are actively fighting in the great unemployed campaign ( reports our Worker Correspondent) .sx Recent activities include a mass meeting on July 21 .sx Active work is being done in the local Court of Referees .sx Many young women are being refused benefit for their stand against Army Canteen Service .sx On a local relief scheme the men are being paid d. per hour under the rate , and over-time is being worked on another job let to a contractor .sx Several deputations having no avail , the N.U.W.M. decided to organise a demonstration to stop the job till their demands were granted .sx The police immediately threatened to arrest the entire branch committee .sx Nothing daunted , the Heywood N.U.W.M. are pressing ahead .sx Many recruits are being made and the power of the local Labour fakirs is being steadily smashed .sx " SUCCESS BY SLAUGHTER " .sx An Exchange Telegraph message states that 314 Burmese revolutionaries surrendered in the Prome district on Sunday and claims that in another area a number of " rebels " allowed themselves to be disarmed .sx Wedgwood Benn stated in the House of Commons on Monday that " the active measures taken by troops and military police are having good effect , " that a " large rebel camp had been successfully attacked , four rebels being killed and many wounded , " and that three more revolutionaries had been sentenced to death and 45 to transportation for life .sx He also claimed over 1,000 surrenders in the Prome district .sx Thus the Labour Government , with its troops , police and guns , claims its " successes " over the starving and desperate peasants of Burma .sx Wage-Cut Award In The Ruhr .sx ATTACK ON GERMAN METAL WORKERS .sx ( From Our Own Correspondent .sx ) Berlin , Tuesday - A cut in the wages of the Ruhr metal workers has been awarded by an arbitration court .sx The present hourly rate of 78 pfennig ( about 9d .sx ) is to be reduced to 75 ( about 8d .sx ) , and a bonus of 6 pfennig ( something over d. ) an hour to the lower-paid categories is to be abolished .sx About 150,000 workers in the north-west district are affected .sx The owners intend to .sx reject the award , as not sufficiently far-reaching .sx The reformist trade unions will probably accept it .sx Resistance by the workers is being organised by the revolutionary trade union opposition .sx The closing of works and dismissal of large numbers of workers is continuing despite all the " good will " talk of MacDonald in Berlin .sx In six engineering firms in Berlin mass dismissals have taken place in the last few days ; also in four of the Berlin telephone exchanges .sx In Neuss , Rhineland , 300 workers of the German branch of the International Harvester Company have been dismissed .sx The Babcock and Wilcox works on Ruhr will be closed down in the first few days of August , thus putting 1,103 workers on the streets .sx The Leuna Chemical Works in the centre of Germany threaten to dismiss 500 workers immediately and 300 more in August .sx The workers , however , under the leadership of the Red factory council , are offering determined resistance to all of these dismissals and are demanding a 36-hour week and equal wages for all .sx The Fuch wagon building works in Heidelberg has closed down , and a branch in Mainz has also been closed for four months .sx In Niederauerbach , in the Pfalz , the Langermann boot and shoe works has closed its doors .sx 3,800 workers have been dismissed .sx The Electrola gramophone works intends to close its factory neat Berlin for three weeks .sx From two to three thousand workers are compelled to take an enforced holiday .sx The Aron metal works in Berlin is dismissing 300 workers .sx The Deutsche Industrie-Werke , in Spandau , is also dismissing several hundred workers .sx The Erich Graetz metal works is dismissing 100 workers .sx NO DISARMAMENT FOR FRANCE .sx War Minister Follows MacDonald's Lead .sx MacDonald's lead , when he declared in the disarmament debate in Parliament recently that there could be no further reductions in the armaments , has been swiftly followed by the French imperialists .sx M. Maginot .sx the Minister for War , concluded a speech at Arcachon ( Gironde ) on Monday with the declaration that France would consent to reduce her military expenditure only if the other nations agreed to give guarantees for her security .sx These guarantees are to take the form of a coalition of forces against " any aggressor .sx " " If , " he concluded , " this indispensable guarantee is not given to us I can but repeat what was said by the head of the British Government , speaking for England , that we have reached the limit of what is possible in the way of disarmament .sx " Earlier in his speech he claimed that next February's conference should not be called a disarmament conference , for its aim was not disarmament , but the limitation and reduction of armaments .sx