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Show A STRIKE IMMINENT. Hart ford Carpet Weavers Disannulled and Will (io Out. Haetfokd, Conn., April 21. Special. A strike is imminent at tho mills of the Hartford Carpet company which are located as Tliomsonville and employ 2000 operatives. The mills have been running up to the present on a winter schedule of fifty-four hours per week. Today the mills began running run-ning on the sixty-four hour schedule, but instead of increased earnings the operatives were forced to work at three per cent under the winter figures, which practically makes a two per cent reduction in their wages. The company com-pany claims that the depression in the carpet trade and injury to business by tho duty on carpet wools necessitate the reduction. The operatives will not accept the company's terms and the mills will therefore bo closed at least temporarily. |