Millard County Chronicle | 1912-03-28 | Page 4 | Consumer to Bear Burden.

CONSUMER TO BEAR BURDEN. Woolen and Cotton Goods to oe Advanced Ad-vanced In Price as Result of Strike. Iloston. The great tawrence strike which brought In Its train Increased wages for 275,000 textile workers la New England, officially was declared off at all the mills In Iuwrence on Sunday, having accomplished Its purpose, pur-pose, In the opinion of the leaders. It Is generally believed that advances ad-vances In wages or reduction in hours of paper mill employes, bagging and burlap workers, machinists and operatives oper-atives in other industries, all are traceable to the movement which had Its origin In Lawrence. The number of persons thus to benefit is more than 300,000. Advances In the prices of woolen and cotton goods which have been made or which are In prospect will place upon the tikltnate consumer much of the burden of the additional eiwt to the textile 'manufacturers. This will Aggregate between ten and iwelve million dollars In the next year. It Is estimated.