The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-02-13
TEXTILE STRIKE
EFFECTIVE TODAY

oOStOHs CeU. 1o.-1He COCCOn mills
IN New Hampshire and Lowell, Mass.
employing $4,000 operatives is affect
ed by the strike which is effective to-
day. There are no disturbances. The
walkouts are in protest against the
wage reductions, in most cases 20 per
cent. The New Hampshire mills in
crease the working week from 48 to 81
hours. The strike of $4,000 in Rhode
Island mills is continued today.
Boston, Feb. 12.-Organized opera
tives in cotton mills employing about
21,000 hands in New Hampshire and
Massachusetts will go on strike to-
morrow in protest against wage re-
ductions of 20 per cent. Officials of
the textile unions with which the
locals are affiliated assert that the
mills are well organized. Approx
mately 5000 operatives in Rhode Is
land textile plants have been on strike
for the last three weeks in protest
against wage cuts.
Reductions effective tomorrow which
in the case of the New Hampshire
mills are accomplished by restoration
of the 65 hour week will cut the
wages of nearly $4,000 operatives in
the four northern New England states.
With the exception of 800 workers
in Lowell, all of those who have sig
nifed their intention of striking are
in the cotton centers of New Hamp-
shire. The Amoskeag and Stark mills
in Manchester, employing $4,000
hands, will furnish the largest quota.
They are affiliated with the United
Textile Workers of America.
Operatives in Maine, Vermont and
Massachusetts, with the exception of
those employed by the Hamilton Man
ufacturing company and the Bay State
mills in Lowell, have so far either
withheld action on protest strike or
voted not to leave their work at this
time. The Hamilton company an
nounced yesterday that its mills would
not open on Monday. The Lowell Tex
tile council has sanctioned strikes at
may follow, the example of the two
that have announced wage reduction.
At Nashua, N. H., the organized en-
ployees Of the Nashua and jackson
mills. of the, Nashua Misunderstanding
company, whicn employs about 1000
operatives, have voted to strike. The
Suncook mills, with 800 operatives To-
Gated in the suburb of Manchester,
and the Corheco mills at Dover with
1900 will also be affected. The Man.
chester Molders' union has announced
that it's members will strike in COM
pany with the textile workers.
Twenty-Five thousand operatives in
Maine will be affected by the cut, in
cluding 10000 in Lewiston. Repre-
sentatives of the Lewiston operatives
decideh at a meeting today not to
strike at this time.
Employees of the Pepperel mills at
Bidneford and the York mills at Saco
have voted to take no action at this
time. The two mills employ about s.
500 hands.
The strike situation in Rhode Is
land, where numerous disturbances
have been reported, led Governor Sans
Souci to issue a proclamation yester-
day in which he declared that in event
of further violence he would use the
military to restore order. Last night
the governor ordered two troops of
National Guard cavalry held under
full arms at the armory in Providence.
No wage reductions have been an
nounced in Lawrence, New Bedford or
Fall River, three of the largest textile
centers of Massachusetts,. A reduc-
tion will go into effect tomorrow in
mills at Fitchburg, Ware and Chico
pee, Mass, Great Falls, New Market
and Salmon Falls, N. H., Burlington,
VT, and Augusta and Brunswick
Maine.
Manchester, N. H., Feb. 12.-More
than 5000 Of the $4,000 textile mill
workers of this city are expected to