Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tennessee. Last October Herbert Hoover went to Elizabethton to make a campaign speech. Proudly its citizens led him through the shiny new mills of the Bemberg and Glanztoff artificial silk companies. He was presented with a sample suit of underwear. Shrewd Germans had invested $10,000,000 in these mills to escape the U. S. tariff. But Germans are hard taskmasters. Mill operatives worked 56 hours per week; their pay envelopes held from $8.90 to $14; overtime brought no extra money. Spurred on by the American Federation of Labor, the Elizabethton workers struck last month. The strike was settled, with...
North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...
...England textile industry began dipping from its peak to its present debilitated condition. Causes for the decline were: 1) the unionization of Labor with its new power to dictate higher wages, to call gory strikes, to obtain protective laws; 2) increased taxation; 3) increased cost of power. The mill owners cast anxiously about for a refuge from their troubles. The South, particularly the western sections of the Carolinas, seemed attractive...
Chambers of Commerce told the Northern mill operators about cheap, unorganized white labor in the South, abundant water power, lenient mill laws (the 72-hour week, night work for women and children), special tax exemptions, proximity to the textile industry's raw material, King Cotton. Mill after mill closed in New England to reopen in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. The labor was new, but the proprietors were mostly the same...
...More state troopers have been used in two years in the South on strike duty than in 50 years in the explosive New England mill towns...