Show C MILLS J ACIN i odo Strike e and t Submit Ultimatums i BOSTON OSTON BOSTON May 3 Textile Textile mills in England iN today faced a a. grave sIt sIt- Strikes and presentation of or wage wage demands and ultimatums by more moe than operators threatened to tIe tie up scores of or plants pants In all of ol this this' districts district's busy textile centers Reports Reports Reports Re Re- ports that the men w would uld be granted an increase of ot wages between 10 and 15 per cent was wag the only ray ray of hope bope for averting a general walkout DEMANDS PRESENTED r j Demands for an Increase of 17 1772 per wages effective 13 sages May were I presented today t 19 mills in Connecticut cut Rhode Island and Massachusetts l b toy by operatives affiliated with the United United United Unit Unit- ed Textile Workers of ot America L Lawrence mill owners today received an n ultimatum from the steam engineers engineers' engi engl- neer that they would strike Thursday Thurs Thurs- Thursday day unless unIes their their demands for Lor higher wages are are gi granted anted President William Wood of the American me r Woolen company denied the the report t that his mills would shut down rather th than n submit to new wage demands de de- de- de mands ands NEW rw BEDFORD BEDFORD WALKOUT i NEW NEW BEDFORD Mass May 3 A A strike of ot approximately 20 opera- opera thes lives w went nt Into effect at thirty-seven thirty cotton cloth mills in this city toda today Th The walkout was occasioned by the posting posting- of relative to working working- conditions for the loom fixers who Were viere required to operate more looms than formerly The Th loom fixers struck several everal weeks ago ago and their protest received the the support o of ot the textile council which h ordered today's general strike Police kept strike pickets moving and I no no n disorder was d. HU HUGE E INDUSTRY The The cloth mills affected are operated operated operated oper oper- by eighteen corporations with a weekly payroll of and having looms looms' and 1 spindles 1 Demands for tor a 50 per cent Increase 1 in r wages ages have been voted by bj the va- va unions ns of the textile council but bu butare t tare are aro being withheld for the present R fl Reports ports from r m other textile centers indicated a state of unrest in the in industry Ini In- In Industry i stry pl pla Major a or Ashley had been asked by the textile council to attempt to negotiate tl te a new wage scale with the manufacturers manufacturers' manu manu- ers ers' association He Ic reported his effort were futile Pickets were on duty dut at the mills Poli Police e reserves guarded mill property |