Word: clinchfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...
Declared President B. M. Hart of the Clinchfield Mill: "I will meet only with my own employes. I cannot see that there is any difference between this so-called conservative union and the Communist union at Gastonia. They act alike...