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Show EMPLOYES REDUCE OWN WAGES WHEN MILLS SHUT DOWN LOWELL, Mass, OoU 8. Employes of the Lawrence Manufacturing Manu-facturing company, hoping to make II possible to continue op-i op-i rations at the company's hosiery and ilnderwear mills lure, have Offered t" accept a reduction in Wages Thirty-five hundred persons are cmpluyril in the hosiery and un-derwi.tr un-derwi.tr departments. The underwear un-derwear machines were shut down todaa and the hosiery work-' ers will be laid off shortly, the local agent announced, because there is no market for the company's com-pany's products due to high prices. The Bay State Cotton corporation, corpora-tion, employing about 600 hands, hut down last night. oo |