Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glanzatoff labor situation and the discovery last week that the acting President of these mills was on his bed, with his wrists slashed, dead. In Rockhill, S. C., the United Textile Workers held a conference, proclaimed "No Communists wanted here," announced their firm intention of organizing the whole southern textile industry under the A. F. of L. At Washington, Senator Wheeler of Montana introduced, at the request of President William Green of the A. F. of L., a resolution for a Federal investigation of the textile South...
Senator Caraway explained the purpose of his resolution: "To expose the fortunetellers and astrologers* who maintain associations here at the expense of gullible men and women back in the States." He also hoped to disclose "who it is that finances the Southern Tariff Association, the Muscle Shoals lobby, the Estates Tax lobby, the present Tariff lobby, Mr. Joseph R. Grundy...
Indications at the present time point to the possibility of a wide-spread textile strike throughout the South. Labor is inflamed, and justly so, over housing conditions, hours of employment, and the low wage scale prevalent in the textile mills of the southern states...
West: Stanford v. Oregon State at Palo Alto; Southern California v. Occidental at Los Angeles; California (Southern Branch) v. California Tech at Pasadena...
West: Washington v. Southern California at Seattle; California (Southern Branch) v. Stanford at Los Angeles; California v. Washington State at Berkeley...