Word: mill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the spokesmen of 27,000 textile workers of New Bedford, Mass., said NO to the State, citizens, manufacturers. Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal...
...Durham, N. C., there was only one fire in the month of August. This was caused by one drop of sweat which fell from one H. Toohey, an employe in a hosiery mill, into a combination of cotton-bleaching chemicals, causing combustion...
...place for the man who loves home and normalcy, Hollywood is grist to the mill of the farceur. Van Vechten takes a spineless playwright, lover of normalcy, and pitches the unwilling wretch into a kaleidoscope of temperamental screen-stars, their mamas (chaperones?) and parasitic Spanish nobles, of shrewd Jewish producers and bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self...
Only one thing has troubled the serenity of New Bedford. Wages of the textile operatives, averaging $19 a week, were undeniably low. And when the mill owners announced, early last April, that wages were to be cut by 10%, reducing the average wage to $17 a week, the workers were stirred to serious and active protest. Out of 27 mills walked some 27,000 operatives, spinners and weavers, loom fixers, slasher tenders. They left 3,000,000 spindles idle, and 50,000 looms...
...Bedford industry remained at a standstill, rents remained unpaid, stores were without customers, national guardsmen cleaned their rifles. In the greatest labor protest in the history of the textile city, strikers had lost some $9,600,000 in wages, at the staggering rate of $600,000 a week. Mill securities had fallen to purely nominal values, a few dollars a share. Both owners and strikers had rejected arbitration, had agreed without hope to allow the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation to '"investigate." So far as New Bedford could see, the strike might last until winter. If the strikers...