Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Textile mills in the Carolinas run all night. After sunrise, the mill siren gives a blast to warn the day workers throughout the village that it soon will be time to go to work...
...enjoy the benefits thereof but the company of course profits by the company's knowledge. Last week, however, the Engineering Foundation initiated a fiveyear, non profit-making research program into alloys of iron. Its purpose: to provide a reservoir of scientific knowledge for all researchers, technologists, engineers, mill and foundry superintendents interested in the alloys...
...months ago workers were organized by A. F. of L. agents in the cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...
...were cracked. Noses bled. Sheriff Adkins swore out 148 warrants for "riot, insurrection and rebellion against the constituted authority of the State of North Carolina." After 74 strikers and their leaders had been arrested, the county jail was filled. More troopers came to town. Minor dynamitings occurred in the mills. A Labor Day parade was banned by the county commissioners and the mill owners moved to evict 230 families of strikers from company homes...
Declared President B. M. Hart of the Clinchfield Mill: "I will meet only with my own employes. I cannot see that there is any difference between this so-called conservative union and the Communist union at Gastonia. They act alike...