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Show FIXES BLAME ON " THE i. W. OF Wr I Boston. March 28. Responsibility for H the strike and lockout situation In the M Lowell cotton mills, where 14 000 op- H oratives are idle, is laid at the door H of the leaders or tho Industrial Work- H crs of tho World in a statement giv- H en out by the Manufacturers'nssociA- H tion. The statement says the strike lH was "duo entirelr to an attempt by H tho Industrial Workers of the World H to get a foothold and strengthen their H organization." H Fully 90 per cent of tho workers H wished to keep their employment., the H statement declares, but many were H Influenced by threats on the part of M the minority" The demands formula- 'BM ted by tho strlko committee ask for jH fifteen per cent increase In wages. H Lowell, Mass., March 2S. In an- H nouncing a second increase of five B jier cent, a statement from tho Unl- H ted States Bunting company, says: H "If between now and the time tho H increase is to go into orfect 4he In- H dustrlal Workors $t the AVorld or any H other organization prevails upon the H operatives to leayo th.f mill or causes , H any other troubfer thoe, the advance MM wlil not be given " H 00 H |