Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...architects and automotivemen, Albert is the most famed member of the Kahn family. Soviet Rus sia, also conscious of Albert Kahn, commissioned him last week to construct vast factories at Stalingrad, at the Volga River's mouth. A tractor plant, an automobile factory and a cotton mill will be the first units in the proposed industrial group...
Around Gastonia, strikers were evicted from company houses, four-room boxlike places, their poor possessions put out on the street. But somehow the National Textile Union continued to find food for 1,700 members out of the Loray mill...
...professional leaders of the strike were faced with a difficult psychological problem. They sought to restrict the strike to its present confines, to increase union membership in mills now operating and thus collect dues to sustain the strik ers already out. But they found it hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...
Last week strike leaders slightly modified their demands. They were ready to accept a 48-hour week instead of a 40. They would return on the 1927 wage scale, instead of the $20 per week minimum. But Manager J. A. Baugh of the Loray Mill was "too busy" even to discuss these concessions. To him the strikers were just "discharged" employes. His mill, he claimed, was running well without them...
...Water jets must play constantly in a textile mill to keep the fibres moist and pliable...