Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advocates of devaluation would lead the franc to zero. They would ruin all France and finally ruin that famous French woolen stocking that people abroad sometimes laugh at because they are envious of it. Perhaps someone will say to me that the currency, once devalued, can be restored again. That is impossible when it no longer has any value. You cannot bring the dead back to life...
When the Berkshire woolen mill spinners went on strike at Pittsfield on Friday, Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on chemistry at Harvard marched with the pickets. Accompanying him was his 15 year old son who also had marched on Thursday...
Francis J. Gorman, captain of Labor's greatest host, last week sat in Washington and counted the first week's results of his national textile strike. Of some 700,000 cotton, woolen, silk and rayon workers whom he had called to idleness, about 375,000 were "out"?because they had answered his call or because they feared to work. In the two great textile areas, New England with 225,000 workers and the mid-South with 340,000 workers, the strike was respectively about 60% and 40% effective...
...stretches from Maine to Georgia. Of cotton textile workers alone North Carolina has 92,000, Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus some 100,000 woolen and worsted workers in 500 mills plus some 150,000 silk and rayon workers in 1,000 mills?such was the army that the United Textile Workers called off the job this week. How many mill hands in how many districts would answer the union call, not even the strike leaders themselves knew...
...strikes in the last five years. He lost the one at Marion, N. C. in 1929 because of premature attempts to organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union's six-month struggle blocked wage cuts for woolen workers. A strike among silk workers at Pawtucket, R. I. in 1933 won better wages, a reduction of the machine load per employe. Last year Francis Gorman invaded the South once more to organize cotton textile workers in Alabama. There 13,000 men struck in mid-July, a prelude...