Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peace came suddenly last week to Happy Valley, Tenn., where a strike of some 5,000 textile workers in the Bemberg & Glantzoff artificial silk mills at Elizabethton had dragged its way through six unhappy weeks (TIME, May 27). The strike ended when President Arthur Mothwurf of the mills agreed to take back striking workers, discuss their grievances, appoint a new personnel director. Peacemaker: Miss Anna Weinstock, 28, conciliator from the U. S. Department of Labor...
Dissatisfaction among his directors in New York at the mill's daily loss of some $40,000, due to the strike, was said to have put Dr. Mothwurf in a peace-making mood. Incognito, Miss Weinstock went to Elizabethton, secretly called upon Dr. Mothwurf, bargained for terms, induced the strike leaders to accept them, harangued the strikers themselves...
...deposits at Perm were accidentally discovered. Three years ago Professor Preobrajenski found in the Perm district what are now considered the world's largest deposits of potash, thus shattered the Franco-German potash monopoly. While digging for potash, drillers were pleasantly surprised to strike oil as well. U. S. petroleum is used chiefly in the form of gasoline; in Russia (with only 21,000 automobiles) the oil will be used mainly as fuel. Perm oil will turn many a wheel in the Ural industrial region, now dependent upon coal which must be transported some 1,200 miles...
...Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention last year. Great is his influence among Union Workers. Great is the respect U. S. publishers have for him, for his word keeps their presses turning. His good offices quickly settled the famed New York City Pressmen's strike in 1923, when for several days all New Yorkers were reduced to reading one jointly-issued tabloid for their news...
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...