Word: mills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strikes in the nation's silk mills usually raise a far louder racket than the whirring spindles and clattering shuttles which stop because of them. Feuds between employe and employer have almost always been bitter, sometimes bloody. Ever since last May, when energetic little Sidney Hillman, able, Lithuanian-born chief of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving...
...world, especially where the climate is warm. As a traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic this year. English critics have compared Song on Your Bugles with the work of a diverse list of writers ranging from Thomas Hardy and George Eliot to A. J. Cronin (The Stars Look Down); readers are mostly right...
...time he was 13, already holding a responsible job in a spinning-mill, towheaded, quick-witted, Yorkshire-stubborn Herrie Champion was well convinced that he was going to be a great painter. Encouraged in this ambition by his widowed mother, Herrie also got an encouraging word from the millowner's wife. The first complication was the millowner's disgust when Herrie joined his fellow-workers on strike. In the starvation-haunted months before the workers were beaten, Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring...
...bushy-haired Congressman Rankin, has a reputation as a liberal, largely because of his ardent support of TVA, and his spleen seemed to be caused by labor trouble in Tupelo, Miss., the model TVA consumer town. There, declared Mr. Rankin, the way NLRB men had "helped destroy" the cotton mill and "the brutal manner in which they are now trying to destroy the garment factories" was "enough to stir the people of my State to revolt...
...only recognized the Steel Workers Organizing Committee but signed an exclusive bargaining contract, apparently had as little trouble with the union as U. S. Steel. First-half profits were up from a measly $182,000 in 1936 to a fat $4,400,000 in 1937. For American Rolling Mill, whose name is not among the 260 steel companies in the C. I. O. fold, the six-month period was the best in its history-$6,600,000, more than the figure for the entire year 1929. Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel made $11,700,000 in the first...