Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These three hurried to Washington to begin their job of peacemaking. The United Textile Workers complained that mill owners were overworking the "stretch-out," were refusing to bargain collectively. The employers complained that they could not afford to meet the union's demand of 40 hours pay for 30 hours work...
...guardsmen could not be everywhere. Most deadly battle occurred at Honea Path, a mill town in South Carolina. There a flying squad of strikers tried to prevent workers from entering the Chiquola Mill. The workers argued for nearly an hour, suddenly started shooting, killed six strikers, wounded 15. Three days later a crowd of 5,000 strikers and strike sympathizers assembled on the field of battle. Amid shouts of "Amen!" and "Praise the Lord!" the Rev. James Myers of Manhattan, Industrial Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, delivered the funeral oration. "These men," he cried, "were instruments of Jesus...
Adapted from incidents in Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart's autobiography. British Agent is lifted a notch above the level of run-of-the-mill spy pictures by the eloquent dialog by Laird Doyle, by expert performances by Howard and Francis. Good shot: a firing squad dealing with one of Locke's confreres...
...lumber the hardwood forests of the Appalachian hillsides and the Mississippi Valley have a code which, as codes go, is a good one. The mill owners lived happily under it for nearly a year. Among other things it provides for production control, cost protection, hard & fast minimum prices. And for an industry which has no less than 5,800 members in its trade association and code authority, the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, there was surprisingly little chiseling...
General Motor's Fisher Body Corp. is the largest consumer of hardwood in the U. S. It requires between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 ft. annually. With furniture and building in the dumps, a small slice of an order by Fisher will keep an average mill operating for months. Yet the Hardwood Code allows no discount on even the whopping Fisher orders...