Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Packard writes, "Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe, which is what they always pretend they are doing." Certain State's of the Union are keeping very quiet, but make no pretense of paying what they owe to Great Britain...
...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...
Around Gastonia, strikers were evicted from company houses, four-room boxlike places, their poor possessions put out on the street. But somehow the National Textile Union continued to find food for 1,700 members out of the Loray mill...
...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...
...cooperation with the Students' International Union the Phillips Brooks House has established a scholarship to the Union school in Geneva, it was announced by officials of the P. B. H. following a decision reached by the Cabinet last night. The recipient of the scholarship will be C. H. Parker '30, who will study in Geneva in the S. I. U. summer school...