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Show STRIKE IS CLOSING LARGE SHOE FACTORIES MARBLEHEAD, Mass., April 2. Demands of Turn shoe workers for increased in-creased wages will tie up the shoe in-idustry in-idustry here, according to announce-; inents by the workers today. The' ! Parker Shoe company closed its shops 1 land the Herbert Humphrey and Sons) 'company announced it would shut; down tomorrow night. The Paine Shoei company has been closed for two! months by a strike of the Turn shoe operatives. About a thousand work-' ers will be out. I The advances sought, managers said, averaged 100 per cent. Some of the workers now receive upwards of ?50 a week, according to the companies. compa-nies. |