Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-03-18
THE LAWRENCE srRlKE.
All Of the Cotton Spinner Stop Work.

LAWRENCE, Mass, March II.
The striking spinners in the Pacific mills
have been increasing today. After they re-
ceived their pay, thirty-five, employed in the
lower Pacific, left, stopping 81 frames. They
allege, a. the cause, that the Pacific author
tiles ordered the boarding house keepers not
to board the strikers from the upper mill.
Matters are at 4 fever heat. A more gen.
eral strike At the other departments is feared
this forenoon. The strikers are nov holding
q meeting in City Hall basement.
The entire cotton spinning force Of the
Central Pacific have just struck, stopping
l33, 900 spindles and 81 frames. meeting
of the strikers is now being held in the City
Hall, addressed BY Peter McCarry. editor
of the Catholic Herald. Great excitement
prevails.
The striker. of today in the lower mill
number seventy and ninety-seven thousand
spindles are now idle. The strikers at the
mill received their pay for last month, this
forenoon, together with discharge from the
employ of the corporation. The boarding
house keepers have been notified that the
spinners are not at work, and as none are
given board in the corporation houses unless
employed in the mill, the striking spinners
must find new boarding places. To this ac-
ton, by the mill authorities, may be attrI6-
uted the strike at the lower mill this after
noon, as the spnners here made no COM
plant. They received notice Of the pro-
posed reduction of wages, but, today. as they
left the mill :hey said they would not return
to work hong AS the order excluding the
strikers from the corporation houses was in
effect
The strikers met after dinner at the base
ment of City Hall. Over two hundred were
do
editor McCarry, of the Catholic Herald, who
had been invited to address them as to what
course they should pursue. He spoke at
some length, first advising them not to per-
sist in a strike, but when the Central Pacific
spinners broke into the room and announcing
they had joined the strike, he said: IF l
we're one of you would stand until dropped
dead" He counselled the appointment Of
a committee to wait upon the superintendent
and relate their grievance and demand a re-
dress, and if none was given then to persist
to the bitter end. He promised them sub
stantial aid.
When the vote was put to the strikers they
unanimously decided to continue the strike.
Ii was also voted to hold a mass meeting on
the common tomorrow afternoon to which all
operatives in the city will be invited. A
committee of the strikers called to see Supt
Parker, this afternoon, DAT that gentleman
stated he did not wish to see them.
1t is reported tonight that the Central Pa
cific weavers will strike tomorrow. 1t is ex-
tremely doubtful what course the Pacific
authorities will decide upon. If the strikers
return to work Monday it is understood they
will be received, but they must conform to
the reduction. This the spinners say they
will not do, but will organize an appeal to
spinners in other localities to keep away from
Lawrence and furnish aid to keep the strike
in progress. The spinners had a consulta-
taton tonight, making arrangements for to-
morrow's mass meeting.
There is little doubt, according to the lat
est developments, that the Pacific mills will
shut down at the close of working hours to-
morrow. 1t is also stated that the manu-
facturers deem it. in the present condition of
the market, for their best interest to close the
mills for an indefinite time.