Coalville Times | 1903-04-03 | Page 2 | Cotton Mills Are Silent

COTTON MILLS ARE SILENT. Seven Big Plants at Lowell, Maaa. Ara Closed Down. Fur thn flrat tlnm In many yeara oft a worklna day the bells on tlm great rotton mllla In liwell, Mara, were nf-lent nf-lent Monday mornliiK. and thn street i. umially niniked by tlm hurry and buatln of thounniola on their way tn work, wern still and alnioat iiio rtc.l. Althollah tho hIiiiI down nf the aeven plonta arTi'ited by thn alrlke order of tha texlle i lium II, w hlih wna piooe d to enforcn a demand for a 1 per ret. I Inrreaao In wam-a wna luauod Hiiiur-day, Hiiiur-day, Its full effect was nut apparent until Monday. Absolute) quiet prevailed pre-vailed in tlm eertlnn occupied by the rotton factories. Tlm period of Inactivity, Inac-tivity, thn dotation of which cannot be dnnnllcly predicted, beKan without a tlotalilo luildent, save perlmpa tlm fa' t that ft few nu n and wnmen who hud started to Aulah up somu work In one or two of the mills wero turned back by committers from tho unlona.