Word: dighton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARY ANN METZEN Dighton, Mass...
UNIONIZED New England textile companies will not find it so easy to move to the nonunion South following a National Labor Relations Board ruling last week. It 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...
This spoof on a rather shabby world is stitched through with a wealth of humorous design by Authors Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Co-Author-Director Alexander (Tight Little Island) Mackendrick: the series of explosions as the oblivious chemist experiments with his weird test-tube apparatus; the harassed high financiers embroiled in low comedy; the inventor walking off, Chaplin-like, at the fadeout, presumably to continue his single-minded quest for the magic fabric...
...more than 50 years in picture-postcard North Dighton, Mass. (pop. 1,500), Mount Hope Finishing Co. has been the town's only employer. Its 17½-acre, ivy-covered plant, largest textile-finishing mill under one roof in the world, is ringed with a park and the pleasant, trim houses of its 800 workers. Under 76-year-old President Joseph K. Milliken, Mount Hope never had a union, but paid its workers the going wages for the industry. It practiced the kind of old-style, New England paternalism that made "J.K." a popular boss. If sickness struck...
...last summer North Dighton began to stir restlessly. The company, hard hit by the textile slump, abolished its bonus plan and revised vacation pay schedules to cut costs. Workers began to grumble and sign up with the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. When Milliken fired 191 employees, the plant struck, and the strikers fought with those who refused to walk out. During the 54 days of trouble, fearful company executives and other townspeople took out pistol permits. In one attempt to bring peace, President Milliken called the strikers to the front lawn of his ten-acre estate, urged them...