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Randall G. White Lincolnton...
...Massapoag mill on the outskirts of the little North Carolina court house town of Lincolnton (pop. 5,423) looks like many another small Southern textile mill from its brick exterior. But aside from tobacco-juice stains splashed liberally about on its floor inside, the plant of the Long Shoals Cotton Mills, Inc. (projected 1960 sales: $2,500,000) is different from any other in the nation. Its solid rows of pastel blue machines bear the stamp "0-M Spinning Machine, Osaka, Japan." Massapoag is the first mill in the U.S. to be completely fitted with Japanese-made spinning equipment. Standing...
North Carolina. For the first time since 1928, North Carolina elected a Republican to the House. The G.O.P. winner: Charles Raper Jonas, 47, of Lincolnton, who won the Tenth District seat. The last Republican elected from that district 24 years ago: Charles A. Jonas, the new Congressman's father and law partner...
SARAH YODER Lincolnton...
Reports trickled into the Press of wage cuts. A restaurant in Honolulu had put waitresses on a $4 seven-day week. Most news concerned the textile industry, pride of the Blue Eagle, first to take a code. At Lincolnton, N. C. mill hours were upped from 40 to 50 per week, minimum wages also upped from $12 to $16. At Greenville, S. C. the Piedmont Shirt Co. cut wages 25%, upped hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from...
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