Word: rayons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Major Berry withdrew as mediator because Gov. Horton had sent into Elizabethton additional troops "under whose guise the rayon plants are being operated." Mayor Berry sided with the strikers and, with a voice like an organ, called for a $100,000 relief fund to carry the strike through to success...
Strong-headed, the mill operators prepared to buck the strikers by a lockout. Dr. Arthur Mothwurf, president of the mills, declared that production would cease "until labor conditions became stabilized." Great was the anxiety of Elizabethton boosters who had seen the German rayon factories put their tiny town on the U. S. industrial...
...second time in a month, a strike paralyzed production at the German-owned and operated Bemberg and Glantztoff rayon plants in Elizabethton, Tenn. The A. F. of L. was organizing there to consolidate the first strike's gains when five workers were discharged. The company said they were drunk. But they were also members of the new union, so 25 other employes quit their posts in protest. More followed and before the operators could realize what had happened, 5,000 workers trooped idly through dusty little Elizabethton. Union leaders denied they had called the strike, said it was "spontaneous...
Celanese Corporation of America, (5,000,000 pounds of rayon in 1928) net, $2,356,976. Previous year...
...valedictory made provision for the future: "a new group of executives to become heavily interested financially, to take over complete management." The valedictory mentioned the need of recreation, leisure, mentioned mysteriously an engineering project at New Brunswick, N. J., a Durant-controlled rayon plant in Virginia, other "interests," in all, "35 times greater than Durant with all its plants...