Show a twig Tw Bg COTTON MILLS ARE SILENT seven big plants at lowell mas are closed down for the first time in many barg on a working day the bells on the great cotton mills in lowell mass were ai i lent monday morning and the streeta streets usually marked by the hurry and bustle of ot thousands on their way to work were mere still and almost deserted although the shutdown shut down of the seven plants affected by the strike order of the textile council which was passed to enforce a demand for a 10 per cent increase in wages was issued satur day its full effect was not apparent until monday absolute quiet pre in the section occupied by the cotton factories the period of mac mile the durat on of which cannot be definitely pred acted began without a notable incident save perhaps the tact fact that a few men and women who had started to finish up some worl in one or two of the mills were turned back by committees from the unions |