Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week like fire in broom straw across the face of the industrial South. Though their causes were not directly related, they were all symptomatic of larger stirrings in that rapidly developing region. Labor troubles first developed in Eastern Tennessee, were followed by strikes in South Carolina and later in North Carolina...
Hoffman was similarly pounced upon in the hotel lobby, blindfolded, forcibly despatched to the North Carolina line. Five men, one a foreman at the Bemberg plant, were later arrested, held for trial. President William Green of the A. F. of L. protested the "outrage" to Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton...
...North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...
General Escobar chose Jiminez, the flat sandy town that has been his headquarters for the past three weeks, on receiving word from rebel generals in the north that the morale of all their troops would suffer unless a show of force was made...
...afternoon the federal left wing reached the town. Street fighting commenced. The railway station, which had become a veritable fortress with sandbags and machine guns, was captured. At the height of the battle federal cavalry was sent to cut the railway north of Jiminez and prevent the rebels escaping. A lucky shot by a federal bombing plane exploded an ammunition train behind the town. The rebels, believing themselves surrounded, fled. Jiminez was captured...