Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month (TIME, May 13) 1,700 Loray mill strikers reduced their demands, hoped to be taken back to work. Their offer was refused. Strikebreakers ran the mills. Downhearted, the strikers returned to their headquarters on the edge of town, chewed over their idleness in savage disappointment...
Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the fracas...
...Loray mill strike should not be confused with another and larger strike of 5,000 workers at the Bemberg and Glantzoff mills in Elizabethton, Tenn., which has been settled (TIME, June...
Dissatisfaction among his directors in New York at the mill's daily loss of some $40,000, due to the strike, was said to have put Dr. Mothwurf in a peace-making mood. Incognito, Miss Weinstock went to Elizabethton, secretly called upon Dr. Mothwurf, bargained for terms, induced the strike leaders to accept them, harangued the strikers themselves...
Unlike the Communist-instigated textile strikes in North Carolina (TIME, April 15), the Elizabethton walkout had the full and active support of the A. F. of L. President Green of the Federation formally pro tested to Gov. Horton that troops had been sent at the request of the mill owners "to terrorize the strikers...