Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never seen so solid and united a front as that presented by the Passaic mill workers in my large experience as a promoter. There was practically no inside friction, in spite of the fact that the workers were not held together or supported by any powerful union...
...opposition has been the most brutal and unjust since the copper strikes in Colorado a number of years ago. The mayor and chief of police of Garfield are both high salaried employees of the mill owners, and as such have employed every means to crush the strikers...
Mother Bloor in her talk today will describe the conditions which the mill hands are fighting to better, and give the workers' version of the stormy riots which have broken out several times within the last few weeks...
After his graduation Weisbord did ordinary labor for a year to become thoroughly acquainted with the mill hands and their problems. Since then he has been working as an organizer in the textile industry for the National Workers' Party...
...behind this incidental obstruction laid to the workmen is a primary cause for discontent for which the mill owners appeal to be responsible. The wielders of industrial influence had it in their power to apply the healing remedies of compromise and concession to alter unsatisfactory working conditions. The present oscillations of disorder are a direct result of failure to make use of this opportunity. IT indeed seems just to charge the greater proportion of the blame to the executives who were in a position to avoid the strike...