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Show CLOSING If THF 11! ! f Ifil fliLLd Cotton Aanufacturcrs Are Curtailing Their Production Boston, July 1. Many of the cotton cot-ton mills of the United States were ehut down today, until July 11, for tho purpose of curtailing production. Thy corporations which closed today employ em-ploy about 100,000 operatives and include in-clude the majority of the four score .mills In Fall River, the eighteen mills of the Amoskeng corporation of Manchester. Man-chester. . II., and numerous factories in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Many cthr New England mills are closed and others went on a tchedule of fivo days a week. The renewed curtailment agreed upon receutly by the cotton interests in this city will affect about 150.00.) operatives in New England between today and October 1. |