Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a thin plaster partition in a Danville, Va. hotel one day last week separated the persons of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, president of Riverside & Dan River Mills Co. Their industrial principles, however, remained poles apart. What tied them together in the week's news were their conflicting interests in the A. F. of L.'s strike, biggest of the Depression, in Mr. Fitzgerald's Danville mills, largest and long the most peaceful of Southern textile plants. President Green conferred with strike leaders in a private parlor...
...Riverside & Dan River Mills strad dle the Dan River, are connected by covered concrete bridges. Normally the personnel numbers 4,500 operatives. President Fitzgerald, whose father was one of the company's founders, started at 17 to work in the plant. When he became its head he organized the mills into a thoroughgoing industrial "republic" with himself as president. He built a $250,000 Y. M. C. A. for his workers, supplied them with neat houses, free electricity. Because he believes that his deafness was caused by poor medical attention when he was a boy, he provided plant doctors...
...workers' congress." There was a lower house of representatives of employes and a senate made up of representatives of the foremen, overseers, second hands. Plant problems were handled in parliamentary fashion. In spite of the hard times which struck the textile business three years ago, the Fitzgerald mills maintained a wage level averaging 10% higher than any other Southern plant...
Score--Harvard 3. University Club 1 Goals--Second period: Garrison (Saltonstall) 2.54: Batchelder (unassisted), 7.40; Palmer (Fitzgerald), 14.35; Garrison (Everett), 18.14 Penalties--First period: Cunningham (board check), Hilliard (board check). Palmer (anti-defense). Batchelder (illegal check) Second period Adams (tripping), Hilliard (anti-defense): Holland (tripping). Hilliard (board check), Batchelder (tripping), Garrison (hooking). Third period Chase (hooking): Everett (handling the puck) Referees Smith and Cleary Time three 20-minute periods...
...HARVARD UNIVERSITY CLUB D.Everett, Martin, Baldwin, l.w. r.w., Curtis, Stubbs, Rogers Garrison, Wood, Putnam, c. c., Chase, Holland Saltonstall, Cunningham, Palmer, Pell, Frothingham, r.w. l.w., Palmer, Hilliard Batchelder, i.d. r.d., Fitzgerald, Clark, Adams Crosby Palmer, r.d. l.d., Bigelow, Saltonstall Ellis, Wendell, g. g., Learnard, Newell