The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-03-23
WAGES INCREASED
BY MORE MILLS
AVERT STRIKE
Fall River Manufacturers Otter
10 Per Cent.
THE SITUATION is RELIEVED
Threatened Strike is Averted and Al
fairs at Lawrence and Barre
are Again Quiet

Fall River. Mass. March 23.-There
will be no strike in the Fall RIVER
mills Monday. This was definitely
decided tonight, when the members
of the five unions affiliated with the
Textile Council voted unanimously 10
accent the advance Of ten per cent IN
wages rendered by the manufacturers.
Thousands OF operatives, including
weavers, spinners, slasher tenders
carders. and loom fixers, are repres-
ented in the unions which accepted
the raise. They had previously re
iected an offer of per cent
NJ. C. d. Borden, controlling the
seven mills of the Fall River Iron
Works company. announced an ad-
vance of ten per cent earlier in the
week and 50 other corporations, con
trolling 100 mills, followed the lead
today. In all, about $4,000 operatives
will benefit by the increase.
The substitution of a ten per cent
advance for the 5 per cent increase
originally offered is expected to be
paid by numerous establishments out
side of Fall River, as frequent inquir
les have been made as to the probable
scale which would be decided upon.
News of the manufacturers oheI
did not become generally known
among the operatives until they hac
returned to work after the noon houl
but the intelligence circulated rapid
ly among business men, and there wa'
general rejoicing throughout Fal
River that great industrial struggle
had been averted.
A strike in the cotton mills of New
Bedford will be declared unless th'
manufacturers grant an advance o
ten per cent in wages, according t
the officers of the Textile Council
The mill owners have given notice o
an increase Of per cent next Mon
day. insisting that they cannot aifor'
a higher rate while the fine goods
market remains dull The mills hav'
10000 operatives.
An advance in wages OF at least
per cent is expected by the opera
tives OF the Stevens Wooden Mills Il
Ware next Thursday The manage
ment has notified its employees tina
when they get their envelopes the
will find that their pay has been il
creased. beginning last Monday. TIL
Otis Cotton Mills in Ware recent
advanced wages. Although they ar
controlled by the interests whicl
own the West Warren mills. whic
were closed on account of strike
there has been no trouble in Ware.
Assurances of Berkshire county co
ton mill interests in North Adam
that they will pay as high wages a
mills elsewhere have virtually ende
the strike of 500 or more operative
OF the Hoosick mills for ten per Ger
advance instead of per cent. TIL
mills there were in operation toda
with three quarters OF the help
work
The thousand striking employees {
the four cotton mills of the Thor
dixie company in Warren receive
their back pay today. There was 4
disturbance.
The return of the striking oper
fives to the mills of the Barre Woo
Il eombing company, limited, and II
norway WOTsleu COMPANY toudl MA
i ked the close of the strike which b
gan last week. The employees retur
ed under an agreement calling (,
higher wages. The wool-combir
y plant is in operation day and nigl
and the force that resumed work I
day numbered about 800. The retur
ing employees at the Norway Worst'
company mill were mostly wome
and and boys numbering about. 25O