Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-01
ADVANCE GRANTED
W. 0JIVJV GO
At All but One Cotton Mill in
Blackstone Valley.
Connecticut Mills Follow Example Of
1.-The Rhode Island Firms.
Lowell Mills Resume Work as If Moth
ing Had Happened.

Pawtucket. r. l., March Livery
cotton mill in the Blackstone valley,
with the exception Of the Lorraine Mfg.
Co, which has mills here and in Wes-
terly, has given notice that an advance
of 10 per cent. IN the wages of it's en-
ployes will go into effect on or about
April I.
The management of the Samoset Co.,
with mills at Valley Falls and Central
Falls. employing over 500 hands, late
this afternoon, announced that the in
crease would be granted.
| The Slater Cotton Co. of this city,
employing $50 hands, and the Valley
| Falls Co. at Albion, gave notice of a
general advance in wages early in the
day.
The Lorraine mills employ about 1900
hands and as yet the management has
shown no disposition to revise the
schedule of wages. None of the yarn
mills in this state has as yet announced
an increase.
The mule spinners in the employ Of
the j. e. p. Coates Thread Co. limit
ed, are making determined stand for
more pay, and they assert that unless
their demands are granted they will
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force the issue.
| New Bedford, Mass, March 31.-Thc
| conference held. this afternoon, between
| the labor leaders and managers of the
| New England Cotton Yarn Co. resulted
about as the predictions made stated it
would.
President Knowles of the board of d.
1 of hat OF fhn ftv,na
the operatives were making all the mon
ey and he fatty refused 10 per cent. ad-
vance as asked for. He suggested that
the operatives wait four months and let
affairs run on as at present. and if at
the end of that time an improvement was
| noticed in the business of the concern
he would willingly invite another confer
ence and make the 10 per cent advance
asked for.
| meeting of the spinners has been ar
ranged for Thursday Friday evening
of this week and the other yarn mill
help will also arrange meetings.
| Fall River, Mass, March 31.-Secretary
| O'Donnell of the local spinners union,
returned from New Bedford, tonight.
| where he had been in conference with the
| New England Yard Co.'S. officials, and
said he would call a spinners' meeting
for Saturday afternoon to consider the
refusal of the demand to give wage
advance in the yarn mills.
Fall River, Mass, March 31.-The card
room employees of the Pocassett American
Linen and Cornell mills are complaining
| that they are not receiving the full 10
per cent. advance. Tonight, they pre-
| !ented their grievance to Secretary Tan
sey of their association, producing figures
| which will be inquired into later. The
POcassett matter was left until the strike
| at the Hargrave mills is settled. The
| secretary will inquire into the other two
| cases.
Providence, r. l., March 31-The weav-
ers employed at the Atlantic mills in Oh
NEVILLE who went out on strike, Satur-,
day, after their demands were refused
| that an alleged cut down of 81 per cent.
be restored and an advance to scale price
made, returned to work, today. 1t APP
pears that some kind of settlement mad
been reached, presumably the old scale
had been restored Saturday, a commit
| tee of eight weavers waited upon the su-
perintendent and formally made the de-
mands. 1t is reported that the manage
| ment discharged the eight men they
thought comprised this committee. The
men discharged were not on the commit
tee, it later developed.
Adams, Mass, March 31.-The Berk-
shire Cotton Mfg. CO. announced an in
crease of 10 per cent. in wages among the
operatives employed in the company's
four mills here $500 employees being bene-
fitted. The Berkshire Cos. mills consti-
tute the greater part of the sources of
employment in this section. A similar in
crease has also been granted in the Grey
lock mill at Greylock. Both changes go
into effect, Monday, April Z.
Norwich. Conn.,, March 31.-Notices
announcing a raise in wages to take
effect, April Z, have been posted in the
Quinnebaug, Wauregan, Attawaugan,
Williamsville and Ballouville mills. in
or near DanielsOn. No statement of
the amount of the advance is made,
but the managers of the mills say it
will be general and will conform prob
ably to the raise in Rhode Island cot
ton mills of about 10 per cent.
Fall River, Mass, March 31.-The
carders in the Hargraves No. 2 mill
quit work, today, claiming that their
advance amounted to only per cent.
This forenoon they talked with their
overseer and he could give them no
satisfactory. answer. At noon they left
the mill.
Lowell, Mass, March 81. All the mill
operatives of this city with the excep-
ton of few in the Massachusetts mills
who must wait until the machinery
has been placed in running order again.
returned to work, this morning, at the
usual hour, and the city has resumed
the even tenor of it's way.