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Francis J. Gorman, captain of Labor's greatest host, last week sat in Washington and counted the first week's results of his national textile strike. Of some 700,000 cotton, woolen, silk and rayon workers whom he had called to idleness, about 375,000 were "out"?because they had answered his call or because they feared to work. In the two great textile areas, New England with 225,000 workers and the mid-South with 340,000 workers, the strike was respectively about 60% and 40% effective...
When President Hanes went north, he left his brothers to run most of that part of Winston-Salem which the Grays and Reynolds do not. Brother James, onetime Mayor of the city, is head of Hanes Hosiery Mills, one of the largest rayon hosiery concerns in the South. Brother Robert is president of Winston-Salem's biggest bank, Wachovia Bank & Trust. Brother Ralph is head of Hanes Dye & Finishing Co. Brother Alex handles Winston-Salem's biggest brokerage accounts as head of the Chas. D. Barney branch. Brother Frederick moved a few miles away to Duke University, where...
...North Carolina has 92,000, Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus some 100,000 woolen and worsted workers in 500 mills plus some 150,000 silk and rayon workers in 1,000 mills?such was the army that the United Textile Workers called off the job this week. How many mill hands in how many districts would answer the union call, not even the strike leaders themselves knew for sure...
...more inspired alibis with which to explain to stockholders an eventually unavoidable write-off were ever compounded than this tale of Capital on strike. Sabotage may have sped the demise, but it was a slower poison which made the case of Hopewell hopeless. See if you can find a rayon chemist who will take his tongue out of his cheek and deny...
...nitrocellulose process for making rayon was patented in 1884 by Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, who dissolved nitrocellulose in an organic solvent, forced the solution through fine holes, finally obtaining long fibres which were spun into threads (Tubize). The viscose process (treating cotton with caustic soda and carbon disulphide) was patented eight years later by two U. S. chemists. Later a third method (little used today) was found using copper hydroxide and ammonia, and still later came a fourth in which the final product is not cellulose but cellulose acetate. Viscose rayon leads in U. S. production; the costlier acetate rayon?...