Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strong-headed, the mill operators prepared to buck the strikers by a lockout. Dr. Arthur Mothwurf, president of the mills, declared that production would cease "until labor conditions became stabilized." Great was the anxiety of Elizabethton boosters who had seen the German rayon factories put their tiny town on the U. S. industrial...
...More followed and before the operators could realize what had happened, 5,000 workers trooped idly through dusty little Elizabethton. Union leaders denied they had called the strike, said it was "spontaneous," urged strikers "to make a real strike out of it." Complaint had been made against the German mill owners that they had not carried out the wage and time agreements which settled the first strike...
...known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and was located on the Merrimac River. Famed among U. S. textile plants became Amoskeag; countless were the cotton bales it turned into cotton cloth...
...front cover} Should an ancient fire-worshipper, reincarnated, return to the contemporary U. S. scene, it is perhaps in a steel-mill that he would find his most congenial employment. For the heart of the steel-mill is the flame of its furnace, and the power of the steel-mill is the heat of that flame. Cold and solid is steel to the layman. Hot and liquid it is to the steelworker, who is essentially one of dozens of cooks attending a titan's kettle of boiling muck. To him, it seems, the fiery mess is continually boiling...
...Reynoldsville, Pa., one Frank Chiffen, silk-mill fireman, shut up his wife in his house and nailed boards over all but one of the windows and doors. At the remaining door he chained three dogs. Whenever he heard the dogs bark he ran home from the mill to investigate. Failing to catch anyone with his wife, he sharpened his axe, ran to the house, decapitated his wife, shot himself through the head...