Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...weeks through Gastonia, dominated by large cotton mill interests, had swirled passion and prejudice against the strikers. So bitter was this feeling that defense counsel asked Judge Barnhill to move the case elsewhere. As a sample of local sentiment, they offered an editorial in a Gastonia paper: "The blood of our beloved chief cries out to high heaven for vengeance. The shooting was part of a deep-laid scheme of Russian Anarchists. Gaston County has already been too lenient with these despicable curs and snakes from the dives of Passaic, Hoboken and New York...
Half a million sturdy Lancashire cotton folk had ceased to spin and weave. Their grievance was specific, precisely stated. The mill owners had announced a 12½% wage cut. That would pare the average wage of each male Lancashire breadwinner from a pitiful 47 shillings ($11.08) weekly to a scandalous 41 shillings ($9.84). Sisters, wives and mothers, long since driven by necessity to eke out the family income by working in the mills, would get not 30 shillings ($7.20) but 27 shillings ($6.48), for a week's skilled labor with trained and nimble fingers...
Blunt, bullfrog-voiced Tom Shaw began his career as a half-time hand in a cotton mill. He became the most ruggedly potent figure in British textile trade unionism. He recently turned up in the Empire's new Labor cabinet as His Majesty's Right Honorable Secretary of State for War. Last week generals fumed, colonels smarted, and subalterns rolled out rich round oaths-all because War Minister Shaw, at a rally of Socialist constituents, had bellowed what they considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which...
...which evidently depends upon TIME for Golden Gate Highlights as proved by the enclosed article clipped bodily from TIME. This would give San Franciscans six free evenings a week, daylight savings time. Thanks for solving, partially, at least, the hair-snipping mystery of 1915. Congratulations also upon your Mill Valley fire story. TIME doesn't miss anything. TIME saves time...