Word: butner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered Mount Hope Finishing Co., which closed its North Dighton, Mass, plant after the C.I.O. Textile Workers won an election two years ago (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), to rehire 690 employees it had laid off, give them traveling expenses to jobs in Mount Hope's new plant in Butner, N.C., and pay back wages of almost...
...Mount Hope Finishing Co., like many another New England textile manufacturer, would head South where labor is cheaper and raw material closer at hand. Though Milliken denies having relocated in the South yet, Milliken's personnel manager went to the Creedmoor Co., a small finishing plant in Butner, N.C., to supervise the installation of machinery from Mount Hope. Meanwhile, more than 20 ex-employees of Mount Hope have already migrated South themselves to work in the Creedmoor mill...