The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-01-16
The New Schedule to Go Into Effect When
Work Begins Tomorrow.
Believed That Nothing Can Pre-
vent a Strike of All the Opera
tives in Cotton Mills at New
Bedford, Massachusetts,, All At
tempts to Adjust the Differ
ences Between the Manufac-
turers and Employees Having
Failed.

BOSTON, Jan. 15.-The operatives in
over half hundred cotton mills in the
New England States ceased to be paid
under the old schedule of prices when
they left their work to-day. On Monday
morning the general policy of the manu-
facturers TO reduce wages VIII be in eff
feet in nearly every mill interested in the
State The reduction will then become
operative in the cotton mills of New
Bedford, Lowell. Pawtucket and Black
stone Valley, in Rhode Island, and in the
States of Maine and New Hampshire
The Fall River mills, with the excep-
ton of three corporations, cut wages
early in the month, as did also the
Amoskeag Company of Manchester and
the mills in Salem and number of
smaller places.
New Bedford continues to be the
storm center The indications tonight
are that all the cotton mills in that city
will be silent for some time to come,
the employees having decided almost
unanimously not to go to work under
the lower wage schedule. The attempts
of the State Board of Arbitration to
bring about a compromise have failed.
The New Bedford mill hands will be
SUPPORTED ny OlleI CtHtelS.
The operatives in the Biddeford mills
have voted to stay out Monday, and it
is possible several minor strikes will
occur in other places. A portion of the
Queen City mill hands at Burlington,
VT, are already out.
To-day notices of 10 per cent, reduc-
ton were posted at the Atlantic and Po-
cific corporations at Lawrence, and news
from that city states that the other cot
ton mills there will undoubtedly follow.
The Lawrence mills are the last TO come
into line. They employ about 1900
hands. The reduction in most of the
New England mills amounts either to
10 or 11-1-9 per cent.
A STRIKE ALMOST CERTAIN.
NEW BEDFORD (Mass.), Jan. 10
Nothing, apparently, can prevent
strike Of all the operatives in the cotton
mills In this city Monday morning. All
attempts at adjusting the differences
between manufacturers and operatives
have failed.
The operatives of twenty-five mills,
numbering 1929 hands, will be forced
into idleness, and S75, 800 spindles and
81 ,S16 looms will be hushed.
The operatives were paid to-day in all
the mills for last weeks work. Pay day
for this weeks work will be next Satur-
day, and a significant fact, and one
showing that the manufacturers intend
to insist on the 10 per cent. reduction,
is that all the cloth was removed from
the rolls in several of the mills, that the
operatives may be paid on the old
schedule.
Tomorrow the Strike Committees of
the various labor organizations will
met to draw up plans for the big battle
which will begin on Monday. All the
Ia Dor organizations in the country will
be asked to help out the strikers in this
city. The weavers will place pickets at
every mill gate, and unfair hands will
probably be roughly dealt with.
PAWTUCKET OPERATIVES.
PAWTUCKET Or. ID, jan 15.-In
the Blackstone Valley next Monday T..
900 mill operatives will begin work at
reduced wages. The reduction is an
nounced from 10 to IL 10 per cent
They operatives say that in some in
stances the reduction is more than an
nOunced.