Show SPINDLES ARE SILENT Great Mills in Lowell for the First Time in Mnny Years Arc Closed Lowell Maas March 30For the first time in many years on a working day the bells on the great cotton mills in this city were silent this morning and the streets usually marked by the hurry hur-ry nnd bustle of thousands on their way to work were still and almost deserted Although the shutdown of the seven plants affected by tho strike order of the textile council which was passed to enforce a demand for a 10 per cent increase in-crease In wages was issued Saturday its full effect was not apparent until today Absolute quiet prevailed in the section occupied by the cotton factories factor-ies The period of Inactivity the duration oC which cannot be definitely predicted began without a notable Incident save perhaps the fact that a few men and women who had started to finish up some work In one or two of the mills wore turned back by committees from the unions Of the seven corporations which are shut down four had practically practic-ally no help working today At the Mcrrlmac and atthe Hamilton Hamil-ton plants the print works were not closed These departments are not directly di-rectly Involved in the contest over wages but they are affected by the suspension sus-pension and when the present stock Is finished they will be forced into Idleness Idle-ness |