Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike, like an army, moves on its stomach. Food became the crux of the textile strikes in North Carolina last week. Supplies for strikers were dwindling. Relief funds dribbled in slowly. A war of attrition moved into its sixth week...
...Pineville, 200 workers went back to their looms and spindles, claiming that they had been "starved out" by the union. Into Pineville only $150 had been sent to sustain 150 families during three weeks of strike...
...professional leaders of the strike were faced with a difficult psychological problem. They sought to restrict the strike to its present confines, to increase union membership in mills now operating and thus collect dues to sustain the strik ers already out. But they found it hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...
Last week strike leaders slightly modified their demands. They were ready to accept a 48-hour week instead of a 40. They would return on the 1927 wage scale, instead of the $20 per week minimum. But Manager J. A. Baugh of the Loray Mill was "too busy" even to discuss these concessions. To him the strikers were just "discharged" employes. His mill, he claimed, was running well without them...
Official cognizance of the textile strikes was taken in the U. S. Senate last week when Montana's Wheeler offered a resolution for an investigation, at the request of President Green of the American Federation of Labor. Quickly uprose in protest North Carolina's two Senators?white-haired, old-fashioned Lee Slater Overman and small, grey-foxy Furnifold McLendel Simmons. They could see no good reason for an inquiry into North Carolina's labor troubles?and antiquated labor laws. Senator Simmons declared that if there was to be a textile strike investigation, let it include Massachusetts as well...