Word: milling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia Bombshell." Editor Ethridge loaded his bombshell with many a charge of what in the South was authentic editorial dynamite. He derided the Ku Klux Klan. He came out for Negro rights. He sympathized with poor-white tenant farmers. He lambasted Prohibitionists. He took to task the paternalistic Mill Village system of potent Bibb Manufacturing Co. For such activities Editor Ethridge was tagged an outstanding U. S. Liberal...
From Columbia, South Carolina, comes the report that Peter Moody, college sophomore who revealed the miserable working conditions among the mill-workers in a recent article, has been ordered examined by a psychiatrist. The Carolina House of Representatives has struck back, and in the language of the ring, struck below the belt...
...obvious answer is that the legislature, controlled by the powerful mill interests, has seen fit to object to the probing finger of publicity on its most tender spot--conditions in the mills. As in the West Virginia coal mines of a few years back, and the Tennessee mines and Louisiana sugar plantations of today, the working conditions of the men and women employed is often appalling. The Moody case is an instance of the rigorous censorship which is kept on all unfavorable reports of what is going on below the Mason-Dixon Line...
...should be after 35 years of American occupation. . . . Money expended per year, per pupil, $9.42. . . . The agricultural school . . . has not proven successful, the Samoan boys disliking hard work of farm life without pay, and remaining but a short time. . . . The experiment, therefore, has been abandoned. . . . Similarly a saw mill provided by the Department of Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable, the saw mill was sold. . . . The Samoans do not take a great interest in the Department of Agriculture . . . administered...
...taken in by Mabel Dodge, whose Fifth Avenue salon was then running full blast. Her possessiveness eventually became a nuisance, but at her house Reed met the man who changed his life: William ("Big Bill") Haywood, famed I.W.W. leader. When Haywood told him about the Paterson silk-mill strike, Reed went to see it himself, got arrested, spent four days in jail. That was the beginning of his revolutionary education...