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Snores of ten textile strikers, abed in the Gastonia, N. C.,* headquarters of the National Textile Workers Union, ceased abruptly early one morning last week when the snorers were nudged awake by revolvers in the hands of a band of masked men. Out into the street the sleepy strikers were marched to the tune of random shots. With crowbar and sledge hammer the invaders-several scores of them, it was too dark to count accurately-set about wrecking the flimsy frame building. Window glass crashed out upon the street and through the aperture went sailing the union's membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Damn Union | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Southern Stirrings | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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