Show fU FUR INDU INDUSTRY T JI i STRIKE 1 1 I s AV AVERTED JD B. B By y Associated Press NEW EW YORK Feb eb 4 By By signing a two y year two ear agreement embodying union dema demands ds the Associated Fur Manufacturers Manufacturers averted a strike called for today by workers employed In this city The agreement nt signed with the AsI Associated Associated As As- Fur Man Manufacturers rs provides I for a hour four week elimination elimination elimination elimina elimina- I tion of the slack season wage and introduction of a it m minimum scale scalo I throughout the year w which h Is an in increase increase increase in- in crease of 40 per cent LAWRENCE MILLS MILLS' IDLE Ey By Associated Press BOSTON Feb 4 Although the majority majority majority ma ma- of ot the mills in New Kew England Instituted the forty forty-elg hour forty hour lt-hour week demanded by textile operatives ves the tho wo workers at Lawrence went on strike I and nd a few mill owners In that city and elsewhere announced an indefinite suspension of operations HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT By Sy Associated Pre Press s. s PATERSON N. N J. J Feb 4 4 Indica Indications were that approximately approximately silk workers In n this city were locked out yesterday after atter they attempted to enforce their demands for a forty- forty seven-hour seven week by reporting late for or work will soon return pen pending ing settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment of Ot the dispute by the war labor board REFERENDUM VOTE By Associated Pre Press LOS IOS ANGELES Feb 4 A. 4 A referendum referendum referendum refer refer- vote of ot metal trades workers employed in shipyards at San Pedro and nd Long Beach near h here re was in II progress yesterday The question submitted was whether the men should walk out in an effort to enforce de demands demands de- de mands for a hour four week and for tor a minimum wage scale of ot 1 an hour t l |