Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart of the Southern textile belt, the Loray Mill of Manville Jenckes Corp. announced that its employes had petitioned to continue work. At Charlotte, N. C., union leaders held what amounted to an old-fashioned Southern camp-meeting, with mighty prayers for success. In Paterson, N. J., silk textile workers announced that they would strike in spite of the fact that their contract with manufacturers forbids a walkout without first consulting the Industry's Industrial Relations Board...
...workers alone 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...
...years. He lost the one at Marion, N. C. in 1929 because of premature attempts to organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union's six-month struggle blocked wage cuts for woolen workers. A strike among silk workers at Pawtucket, R. I. in 1933 won better wages, a reduction of the machine load per employe. Last year Francis Gorman invaded the South once more to organize cotton textile workers in Alabama. There 13,000 men struck in mid-July, a prelude to the greater strike last week...
Long lines of green monsters with swollen heads symbolized the Brain Trust. They were dropping gold into troughs at which silk-hatted pigs were feeding. At the lower left Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was strangling the Goddess Ceres. Behind him a tax collector was removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle...
...last sprint began. Bird-Lying-Down carried the precious chamois bag. A crowd gathered at the South Gate of the White House grounds. Wearing loin cloths with disklike reflectors fore and aft, as protection against motor traffic, the 14 braves entered and jogged up the walk. In the silk-walled Blue Room the President received the naked Indians and the three kernels of corn inviting him to attend the peace celebration of the Six Nations at Fort Niagara on Sept. 3. He shook the Redmen's hands and said that he was sorry but he thought he could...