Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-11

Among the New England industries
added to the list Of those granting in
creases to their employees are:
Providence, II. I-Wanskuck Co.
controlling the Wanskuck mill il
Wanskuck, the Steere mill. the Geneva
mill. the Mohegan mill in Burrillvine
and the wooden mill in Oakland. Six
teen hundred hands are employed by
the corporation. and the increase favor
ably affects five villages and large
number of families.
Exeter, n. H.-EXeter Manufacturing
Co., Jan. l, employing 80 hands, and
about 200 at Pittstield
Pawtucket-Lorrain Manufacturing
Co, Pawtucket and Weserly, 1906
hands.
Willimantic, Ct.-WHlinlartic- Cotton
Mills. 80 hands, Dec IL.
Brunswick, Me.-Cabot Mill, Dec IS,
10 per cent advance.
Salem-Naumkeag coteIn mills, Dec
is; average pay roll. $4,000. r.
Greenfield, Mass-Turnef's Fails and
Griswoldville cotton mills. 2sp bands,
A feature of the: American : cotton
manufacturing industry which IS pleas
ing to New England mill owners is. the
beginning of a movement in the SotIt
ern states to place wages on a higher
level there, as well as in the North.
The announcement from Augusta
Ga, that the cotton manufacturers of
that city will raise the wages of rifeir
5000 employees on Monday, Jan. l, is re-
garded here as an indication that the
other. mill men of the South will also
take some action on this question.
1t is estimated that by Jan. l from
40, 900 to 150, 900 cotton mill operatives
in the North will be working under an
advance of wages, and that the adj
vance in the South will bring the total
in the United States to above 1000.
The 10 per cent. advance on Jan. /
ordered by the directors of the Ameri-
can Wooden Company will affect at
least 10000 operatives. Several mills
not in the combine have announced
that they will also increase wages
The general advance of the entire tex
tile industry will directly affect, it is
said. approximately 175.000 operatives
in New England. and will indirectly
affect nearly half a million people.
. 1t is expected that by January wages
will be up to the standard of the 1899
schedule.
At North Adams. Mass. the Hunter
Foundry will commence on new
schedule. Dec II. by which moulders
will receive at least $3.50.
The announcement that the American
Wooden Co. is to increase the wages of
its employees led to a rumor that there
would be an advance in the wages of
operatives of the Goodall mills at San
ford, Me. The fact is. however. that the
mills made a 10 per cent. raise.
or restoration. of wages. three years
ago. and the trust. by it's recent action.
is just catching up with them.
The Chase WOODEN plant in Chase
VILE Dudley, Mass, is affected by the
raise of 10 per cent in wages which
goes into effect throughout the coun-
try in the mills embraced in the Amer
lean Wooden Co., the first of the new
year The plant employs 800 hands,
and this increase of wages gives an
advance Of $4,000 per year in the pay
roll.
The 1900 operatives of the Wauskuck
and Geneva mills of Providence. r. T..
were informed. Saturday. that they had
been granted a 10 per cent. advance. At
several Pascoag mills notices of advances
were also posted. The Centerdala mills
have granted their 900 hands a 70 per
cent. advance. to commence Dee. ., in
stead of Jan. l as in most wooden mills.
The Wauskuck mills are owned by
Messrs. Metcalf, who also control mills in
Oakland. r. r., ana in Auburn, y. s.,
whose operatives will receive the al
vance. About 2OG0 are employed at the
latter town. Several mills in Washing
ton county. r. l.. owned by the Hazards,
will receive the advance. The Victoria
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