Word: mills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the hundreds of representatives of the U. S. Press who flocked into Weirton, W. Va. after the National Labor Relations Board began its crucial hearings on the union policies of Weirton Steel Co. last August, was 34-year-old Editor Hartley W. Barclay of the tradesheet Mill & Factory. Even Editor Barclay's 23,000 readers, mostly plant owners and managers, were surprised by the violence with which he reacted in his October issue. "What comedy! What tragedy!" exploded Hartley W. Barclay in an article captioned The True Story of Weirton and illustrated with smiling Weirton workers. Claiming that...
When reprints of the Mill & Factory article began to be distributed by Weirton Steel Co. in Weirton and elsewhere last month, one reader who got hopping mad was the NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden. Last week in Washington Chair-man Madden signed an NLRB subpoena ordering Editor Barclay to turn over by Monday to a trial examiner in Steubenville, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Weirton, all the material used in preparation of the offending article including ''communications," written or spoken, that had passed between Editor Barclay, ConoverMast Corp. which publishes Mill & Factory, and some...
...questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood's orders to tear down a three-car garage, a brick mill, a woodcutting shed 100 ft. by 30 ft. From the Steven plant, which had been closed since 1933, Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things, a 15-ton derrick, two electric hoists worth $4,500. Mr. Rockwood, explained Prosecutor Thompson, had disposed of his huge swag chiefly to local...
...putting its official glaze over the facts, for everyone at the London Palladium saw and heard King George roaring and Queen Elizabeth laughing till the tears came at the way Cicely Courtneidge burlesqued a "larky spinster," at Gracie Fields scratching herself as an itching mill girl and at Jack La Vier hopelessly entangling himself in a trapeze after he had announced, "Now I'll show you just how far insanity has advanced...
Died. Tell Taylor, 61, composer of Down By the Old Mill Stream, which sold nearly 4,000,000 copies; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; of a heart attack; in Chicago...