Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macon, Ga., 50 men and women sat down with determination on a railroad track so that a switch engine could not take carloads of cotton goods from the Payne Mill of Bibb Manufacturing Co. At Manchester, N. H., the Amoskeag Mills, largest single cotton textile factory in the U. S., shut down its chemical plant, then closed completely. In Manhattan, the "Explosion Conference" of underwriters announced that insurance rates on textile mills and mill villages, due to "riot or civil commotion," should be forthwith tripled. At Gastonia, N. C., heart of the Southern textile belt, the Loray Mill of Manville...
...textile strike (TIME, Sept. 3). The working population of two San Franciscos would approximate the number of persons engaged in the textile industry. But two San Franciscos would occupy only a few square miles, whereas the major textile area of the U. S. stretches from Maine to Georgia. Of cotton textile workers alone North Carolina has 92,000, Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus some 100,000 woolen and worsted workers in 500 mills plus some...
Thus the "national strike of textile workers" remained a question mark. Last week President Roosevelt ordered NRA to cut the hours of cotton garment workers (not to be confused with cotton textile workers) from 40 to 36 per week and grant a wage increase of 10 to 11% to offset the shorter hours. United Textile Workers talked of winning a similar cut from 40 to 30 hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care...
...freedom, which the new land heralded, they found denied?to them and to their children. Still they laughed, and wept, and sang, while through the South the cotton fields bloomed white beneath their patient labor. And then, amid the clamor of the guns, a voice proclaiming Freedom, and the chains fell off and a light flooded over them?free?free...
Before a shimmering white mansion actors in brown and green hold up white cotton stalks. King Mumbra is now a house servant. The White Mistress tells the story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give...