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Show 90,000 ON STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA; TEXTILE INDUSTRY IS PARALYZED PHILADELPHIA, June 1. An additional strike of textile workers was Inaugurated in this city today Involving about 90,000 operatives. Of the 600 firms engaged in the textile industry here forty-seven have grsnted the demands de-mands of the union and . their plants, employing about 15.000 hands, are in operation. All of the tlxty-three Ingrain carpet mills are Idle, affecting directly 3000 weavers and 10,000 hands in other departments. All of the dyers, who are said to control the situation, are on strike, with the exception of those of the Berkshire mills in the northeastern section of the city, which has conceded the flfty-flve-hour week and Increased the wages of the men from $12 to $13 a week.. The Ingrain carpet weavers are asking besides the flfty-flve-hour week a 10 per cent Increase in wages. The mill of John and. James Dollison, employing 2000 hands, was closed Indefinitely today. The workmen were notified that they could return to work at the present rate of wages. Otherwise the mill would remain closed. |