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Happy Valley, Tenn., was full of new trouble last week. Ten thousand idle hands itched with mischief. Strikers from the American Bemberg and Glantzoff artificial silk factories at Elizabethton, Tenn., felt the prick of National Guard bayonets...
These disorders drew protests against the use of troops in Happy Valley. Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York State resigned as a director of the Bemberg and Glantzoff companies after futile attempts to induce their managements to settle the strike, to forego the use of armed forces...
...second time in a month, a strike paralyzed production at the German-owned and operated Bemberg and Glantztoff rayon plants in Elizabethton, Tenn. The A. F. of L. was organizing there to consolidate the first strike's gains when five workers were discharged. The company said they were drunk. But they were also members of the new union, so 25 other employes quit their posts in protest. More followed and before the operators could realize what had happened, 5,000 workers trooped idly through dusty little Elizabethton. Union leaders denied they had called the strike, said it was "spontaneous...
Tennessee. Last October Herbert Hoover went to Elizabethton to make a campaign speech. Proudly its citizens led him through the shiny new mills of the Bemberg and Glanztoff artificial silk companies. He was presented with a sample suit of underwear. Shrewd Germans had invested $10,000,000 in these mills to escape the U. S. tariff. But Germans are hard taskmasters. Mill operatives worked 56 hours per week; their pay envelopes held from $8.90 to $14; overtime brought no extra money. Spurred on by the American Federation of Labor, the Elizabethton workers struck last month. The strike was settled, with...
Hoffman was similarly pounced upon in the hotel lobby, blindfolded, forcibly despatched to the North Carolina line. Five men, one a foreman at the Bemberg plant, were later arrested, held for trial. President William Green of the A. F. of L. protested the "outrage" to Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton...