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Show CUT IN WAGES. Thousands of Operatives Affected in New England. Eoston. Nov. 23. The first of the numerous num-erous reductions in wages announced in the cotton miils of southern New .England and at half a dozen points outside of that territory, went into effect in all but one Fall River corporation today and at a number of outside mills. Although about 32,000 operatives 'had their pay cut down no general strike occurred in any mill. Today's cut averages JO per cent, and places the pay schedule on a basis with those paid previous to the advance of March, l.Xi2. The reduction affected seventy-eigh mills in Fall River, operating nearly 25,tw0 hands, and about a score of corporations elsewhere in New- England employing about 7.0W operatives. The Fall River Iron works, operating four print cloth mills, will ret down wages next Monday, and on that day also nearly all R-hode island and Connecticut manufacturers will adopt tho lower schedule. A cut in New Bedford will go into effect in two weeks. |