Word: elizabethton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They dropped all charges against nine defendants, including the three women involved and six natives of North Carolina. Against the seven remaining defendants-four of them Northern Communists-the charge of first-degree murder was dropped and with it the shadow of the electric chair which juries shun. In Elizabethton, across the border in Tennessee, officials of the American Bemberg and Glanzatoff mills, where labor troubles began last spring simultaneous with the Carolina strikes, got the employes to cast anonymous ballots for or against another strike, to test the sentiment. They reported 2,883 votes against striking, 255 for. Observers...
Died. Konsul C. W. Kummer, 49, acting president of American Bemberg & Glanzatoff Corp. (rayon), director of British Bemberg, Ltd., Associated Rayon Corp., Kodak A. G. (German); at Elizabethton, Tenn.; by his own hand. He had been suffering acutely from gallstones. The local textile union "deferred any action for the present although there was some difference of opinion between the company and this organization." (See p.15...
...Loray mill strike should not be confused with another and larger strike of 5,000 workers at the Bemberg and Glantzoff mills in Elizabethton, Tenn., which has been settled (TIME, June...
Peace came suddenly last week to Happy Valley, Tenn., where a strike of some 5,000 textile workers in the Bemberg & Glantzoff artificial silk mills at Elizabethton had dragged its way through six unhappy weeks (TIME, May 27). The strike ended when President Arthur Mothwurf of the mills agreed to take back striking workers, discuss their grievances, appoint a new personnel director. Peacemaker: Miss Anna Weinstock, 28, conciliator from the U. S. Department of Labor...
Dissatisfaction among his directors in New York at the mill's daily loss of some $40,000, due to the strike, was said to have put Dr. Mothwurf in a peace-making mood. Incognito, Miss Weinstock went to Elizabethton, secretly called upon Dr. Mothwurf, bargained for terms, induced the strike leaders to accept them, harangued the strikers themselves...