Word: chatillon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy years Tubize (now Tubize Chatillon Corp.) made rayon yarn at Hopewell. By last April, when labor troubles first visited Tubize Chatillon, it was third largest manufacturer of this material in the U. S. Then a United Textile Workers' Union was formed at Hopewell, began to solicit members. The company objected to the method of solicitation. Its workers, it claimed, were thrashed if they refused to join up. Some non-union employes were not allowed to enter or leave their homes. Others the company undertook to smuggle out of town for their own safety...
...letter to Conciliator Anna Weinstock of the Department of Labor he declared that it would take at least three months to repair and renew the Hopewell machinery wrecked by the night raid of the strikers. Such repairs, he said, would cost thousands of dollars?far more than Tubize Chatillon stockholders would be warranted in investing in a rehabilitation of Hopewell. The company would make no more rayon yarn in Virginia but would import whatever was needed for use on its Hopewell looms from its yarn plant at Rome, Ga. Closing the yarn plant would put 1,500 of the company...
...Thus, evacuation of Nancy and Verdun. "General de Castelnau disobeys orders, resists on the Grand Couronne, saves Nancy. General Sarrail gives battle before Verdun despite orders to retreat. He saves Verdun. I take the offensive [with taxicabsj before Paris while General Headquarters are removed far to the rear at Chatillon. These were actions independent of the will of the commander-in-chief, carried out by commanders of the army corps, but premeditated by General Headquarters-never!" Though