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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Textile mill strikes flared up last week like fire in broom straw across the face of the industrial South. Though their causes were not directly related, they were all symptomatic of larger stirrings in that rapidly developing region. Labor troubles first developed in Eastern Tennessee, were followed by strikes in South Carolina and later in North Carolina...
South Carolina. Operatives first walked out of the Brandon Mills at Greenville. Others at Spartanburg, Union and Anderson followed. Complaint was against the "stretch-out" system whereby workers were given increased work without proportionately more pay. A committee of the South Carolina Legislature, headed by Representative Dowell E. Patterson, who is also president of the State Federation of Labor, investigated these strikes and reported : "The whole trouble has been brought about by putting more work on the employes than they can do. . . . In the 'stretch-out' system it is the employe who does the stretching out. . . . The strike...
Addressed to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York, the package was diagnosed as a bomb. Only oldtime bomb-touchers were allowed to handle it. On his way to Albany, Gov. Roosevelt remarked: "That's the first I've heard about bombs since I left the Navy Department...
...community (pop. 1,378,900), has $25,000,000 invested in the aviation industry in its neighborhood. Aircraft motor makers are Continental Motors Corp., Packard Motor Co., Stinson Aircraft Corp., Stout Metal Airplane Co. At the show last week Eastman Aircraft Corp., and Verville Aircraft Co. for the first time exhibited planes. Cadillac Aircraft Corp. and Trella Aircraft Co. showed experimental models. Four other concerns are working on aircraft designs...
...Continental Motors, who, with Lycoming, make almost all engines for motor car companies that do not make their own, last week announced its first aircraft motor, a seven-cylinder air-cooled radial. Lycoming also makes an aircraft motor...