Show I 80000 ARE AFFECTED Operatives In New England Whose Wages are Cut Today MAY BE A BIG INDUSTRIAL BA TLE UlE Strlkr At 111 bo toiinntritr1 Their I Inrl l tiiilojn V1 I i IHo Murk uro 111willllel Iloston Mean Jan 17 nighty thou rnnd skilled operatives employed In I about TO of the chief cotton mills of I I New England states will today come under the sweeping order of a new i I wage scale which entails a reduction often of-ten per cent or more This leductlon I bring on In New Bedford Mass Low I lutoii and Illddeford Maine labor strikes which I may prove the beginning 101 I nn Industllal battle greater In ex tent n moro disastrous In effect than ally In the previous history of cotton manufacturing In the United Elates In New Uedfoid the nine corporations represent twentytwo mills giving leans of livelihood to nearly ten thou ancl The strikers will bo dliecUd b > the labor unions the lead being taken hI the mule spinners union te na tin list executive committee o which hits oncloned the strike 01 opposition and promised financial aid Tho spin Item and waVer are practically tin only branches 01 operativeswittelt have oltves maintained organization Ono feature of the labor tumbles which my manl fist Itself Is I the return to their Canadian Cana-dian homes by hundreds of families who speak Trench who Hock to the suites In winter to secure employment WORKING BUT DlHSATISTiniX Woonsocket 1L I Inn 17Tho 2300 people employed In the Social Globe and Nourse mills of the Social Manufacturing Manu-facturing company and the Clinton mill In this city went to work at le ductlons of wages averaging It Is I stated stat-ed about ten per cent Tears are tilt that troubl may yet arise SHUT DOWN IN MAINE Illddeford Maine Jn 17 Every department de-partment of the Pcpperlll nnd Laconla illls In this city nnd all the depart ment of the I York mills In Baco with the exception of the carding nnd and mule spinning rooms shut down today an a result of the decision of the opera five to resist a ten per cent reduction In wages which was to go Into effect tod lay i At the New York mills In Saco the enel remained out and wete followed fol-lowed by the ring spinners The cut at these mills is sild to average 12 percent per-cent There ore lCOO operatives and 51 204 spindles The management of the mills will be refuse to say what their policy TIIKSB GO TO WOniC Lewiston Maine Jan 17The oper olives of all the mills her except those of the AndroscogBtn went to work as usual today undir a reduction In wage 01 from 10 to 1119 per cent Atthe Andr cog dni tmU pr out of O weavers went to work The reduc ton went into effect at the milo of the Continent and Androainggln Hill Bar her X Hit corporations and at the Lewiston Illcachery and Dye works The total monthly ray roll of these companies his been 83000 About T50 operatives are employed nnd the number num-ber of spindles aggregates 273000 Inillrtliii jiiobrr Genoa Nev Jan 17 Indictment will be found against the Ijnchcrs ot Adam Iber Judge Hack says the num her Indicted will be I six or seen and I District Attorney Virgin concurs with the Judge N Mull laHllll at IH A on Tacoma Wash Jan 17DrIvemn City has received no regular mol since last August rioth American and Canadian Cana-dian minus there believe their respective respec-tive governments have forgotten them so far as mail laelte ar concerned Many of the miners have paid 1 1 per letter at Dawson to have mall brought out to relitlve and friends Generally this bin been carried through to the sound cities though one or Iwo larl report that sm nl Ihls mall was discarded by tile carrie and Is I to be found sellerd along the upper Yukon and lakes |