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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Oliver Max Gardner sent in two companies of National Guardsmen, also an outside judge to investigate. Forty of the mill workers were arrested for riot and rebellion but released without bail. R. W. Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin in his speech at the quadruple funeral. The service was held in a scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn-singing, which included this chant...
...jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters, seemed to lie in recent episodes of the textile war- unionists flogged, one woman murdered, the Marion slaughter. To meet these changed aspects of the case, the State's prosecutors adopted quick new tactics. They dropped all charges against nine defendants, including the three women involved and six natives of North Carolina. Against the seven remaining defendants-four of them Northern Communists-the charge of first-degree murder was dropped and with it the shadow...
...Mitten Plan, briefly, permits all employes to have a voice in the operation of the company, encourages them to become stockholders. The bequest, written into the will five days before the body was found, is invalid under the state law which nullifies charity bequests made within a month of the donor's demise, but his son, Dr. Arthur A. Mitten, who succeeded him as Mitten Management's president, will carry out his famed father's wishes, will create a trust, the Mitten Foundation...
Flem David Sampson, Governor of Kentucky since Jan. 1, 1928 assumed among other duties that of seeing that Kentucky school children got new schoolbooks. He and the State textbook commission were soon flooded by 25 schoolbook publishers with sample copies. Partly because he is the only Republican high official in his administration, partly because his opponents were ignorant of publishing practice, Governor Sampson was indicted last month for receiving "gifts." Seven members of the textbook commission and all the sample-sending publishers were also indicted, it being known that the commissioners had sold the sample books they received for sums...
...State's attorney appealed the case, to learn what he should do about the suits against the textbook commissioners and the 25 publishers. Meanwhile Mr. Sampson's prosecutors and the publishers reflected on the commercial aspects of the spread of culture...