Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-03 | Page 8 | Textile Plants Raising Wages

Pay Rolls of New England Mills Are Increased $1,000,000 Weekly. HOSTOX, Dec. 2. Advanced wages for the thousands of operatives in the textile industry in New Knland, were announced today. Within a day or two, it was In-dtraied, In-dtraied, S'lO.'iQO workers in cotton and woolen mills in this section and thousands of operatives in oiiier eastern states would be ivf'e. vini? higher pay. The advance, which most generally was an noun t-ed as 12V2 ixer cent, "marks a new h;h "level for textile v;i ge. It is estimated esti-mated thai it wii! add slightly less than ,(n to.'"1 1 o weekly o tiie pav roils of Xew Lhigiand rc.iils. nici-eMSfs in textile industry wair-H since the be'-Thming of tlie war will then aggregate aggre-gate from 300 to 1-!S per cent. Follow big t-Ioseiv upon the settlement last nigiit of a one-day strike at Fall River, with an advance of J2U. nor n.nt to 3s,:w workers and averiin:- cf I t v u-ened u-ened strike at Xew riedfoM hv th "ra i " "f a similar i,K-r,;asc. of k,mv.1 ives, word came today from virtual v . ery nnrortant text le center that manu-la. manu-la. tuvers v.x-rc fallins in line. The !f. lt-sn , oolen company announced tl'ia n miifr80 'd be"'n ord'cd t an of tu The amount, was not m;ul nnh'ir Thi-company Thi-company employs upwards of -.1 (100 m'r' ui'xew orkiX c,",s' fuainW plan's