Rise Gonna Rise
McConville, Ed
their attitudes, perceptions, life styles. longer, but I suspect that it is for many, swallow fast." They wouldn't For they are the only ones who can and for the women in the...
...F,should equal net press run shown in A): 22.000...
...Stevens and Co...
...Edward S. Skillin, 232 perts, but we are experts in experience, times like that, half the ntght sleep- Madison Ave...
...His work the South have come to believe that our Christianity Southern land, which we love so much, The Holy Land has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive Profiles of 300 Biblical Persons and The Washington Post...
...tims about to testify at an Occupational she's coughed every night...
...didn't do you like this," recalled Louis Stevens Employees Educational Com- Harrell, who has since died of brown mittee...
...He could tell you a lot if he would...
...They wouldn't For they are the only ones who can and for the women in the authors' client even let you go to the bathroom...
...own employer "Stephenson," a more And, when allowed to speak for them- common name than "Stevens" in eastselves, Southern textile workers emerge I ern North Carolina, is, the author points as admirable and likable, but complete out, a reminder that J.P...
...None...
...B. Paid Circulation: 1. But he said he don't want to talk to no leave their machines during the course of Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter a shift...
...Back then if a man got sick, they Conway has chosen a wise stylistic didn't fix it so he couldn't eat...
...I got almost crazy in tence title, if for nothing else...
...That man told them if they had tq haul a The author almost never analyzes...
...Workers tell the author of their fear of RISE CONNA RISE: her word in Rise Gonna Rise, her look at being fired for union activity, their fear A PORTRAIT OF SOUTHERN TEXTILE the lives of J.P...
...quoted was Virginia Davis) Edward S. Skillin, Publisher...
...Rise Gonna Rise don't get your 'chines right, then you don't eat...
...The author does not rely We hear black and white textile workers Doubleday/Anchor, $10.95, 240 pp...
...Statement of Ownership...
...I'm thinking of suing J.P...
...She quotes constantly...
...One overseer sent his wife home without pay for going to the bathroom on company time, to show he was above Experts in experience favoritism...
...Ste- Mail subscriptions: 17,725...
...ders, mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding Mimi Conway takes Lucy Taylor at the other half worried that she's I per cent or more of total amount of bails, mortgages or other securities...
...years, a resurrected Southern populism...
...3. Frequency of issue: Biweekly, except dent James D. Finley at the company's ton dust in the mills...
...Managing Editor, Peter Steinfels, 232 Madison Ave., Health and Safety Administration the time she gets me up with her New York, NY 10016...
...C. Total paid woman about no union...
...Initial Titles: DENNIS O'BRIEN is the president of Bucknell social justice now...
...The striking notion that the manage- noted writer and Bible scholar...
...We are not technical ex- dead...
...Then when she gets name and address must be stated and also immediately thereun(OSHA) hearing in Washington on estab- der the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding lishing safe cotton dust levels in the tex- quiet, I start to worry that she's I per cent or more of total amount of stock): Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc., New York, NY 10016...
...232 Madison Ave...
...5. Location of the headquarters of general business offices of the publishers: The Roanoke Rapids woman later de- clinical terms...
...Her husband, F. K., monthly Christmas-New Years and July and August...
...She winked at...
...Testifying at congressional hearings Guide to the Old Testament and CARLO A. wEBER works for the Department held in Roanoke Rapids two years ago, Apocrypha - $3.50 of Health Services in Los Angeles...
...Prepared for high school students and Several of the textile workers she ments of the South's proudest and priadults who want to know more about talked with say their lives were better mary industry are outsiders, out of touch the Bible, it uses a variety of formsunder the paternalism of the old Southern with textile workers and their com- exposition, narrative, lists, anecdotes, outlines...
...Average number of copies each issue died...
...3 spinning other means, sample complimentary and other free copies: like having you in the house...
...A. Annual Subscription Price: $20.4...
...F. I. Office use, left over, kitchen...
...People lished by the Center for Inter-American Rela- have come in and exploited our people...
...In any When I asked my bossman if I that then leads to the further question event, it is clearly time for a book on the could go, he said I couldn't leave (and hopefully another' book from the difficulties males now experience with my machines...
...And the result is a compelling laboring in the mills makes me an expert one, for they have much to say...
...You'll just have to Commonweal: 572 Announcing the first three titles gamated Clothing and Textile Workers seen as an almost unmitigated evil, than in an ambitious new series...
...Ernestine Brooks describes her sales: 1,415...
...Union (ACTWU) or the Carolina Brown they are today under the impersonal abLung Association (CBLA...
...New York...
...Location of known office of publica1977 stockholders meeting in New York...
...working conditions in the No...
...New York, NY 10016...
...describes his wife's illness in non- tion: 232 Madison Ave...
...Workers at Stevens are often unable to single issue published nearest to filing date: . Total number copies printed (Net Press Run): 22,000...
...news agents: 1.122...
...complimentary and other free copies: 1.025...
...Half Editor, James O'Gara, 232 Madison Ave., New York...
...No longer can mill fact and clarity of expression...
...who advocates unionization, said, History of the People of Israel ED McCONVILLE has worked as a union or- "Those of us who have lived always in Highlights of the History of ganizer and investigative reporter...
...on professional or academic expertise, warily coming to accept one another...
...He may strategy for a book on Southern textile have had to take a reduction in pay, but workers...
...Presi- September 27, 1979...
...lung...
...He doesn't even circulation: 17.800...
...D. Free distribution by mail...
...E. Total distribution (sum of C and D): 18,825...
...The old, local bringing on the mark of the Beast," in mill management in Roanoke Rapids the words of one member of the J.P...
...The fact most mill tive passages call to mind Carson McCul- workers in Roanoke Rapids call their lers at her best...
...2. Returns from over town the same way...
...B. Paid circulation: 1. Sales through "She leaned toward me, half impish, dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sales: 1,356...
...Clare tile industry...
...Ed McConville nor does she set herself up as an expert on Some mill workers talk about their once her subject...
...For some gravely amiss were he not to read this that job...
...has in fact become a colonial possession Prices to be announced...
...We'll go room at the Rosemary Mill in Roanoke Office use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 2030.2...
...rarely describes, though her few descrip- And they did...
...F. 1. c'mon...
...But, 1,025...
...Please send check with order, tions...
...But population, it would seem to be...
...8. Known bondholand in telling the truth about our lives...
...This must come to an end...
...2. Date of filing: Taylor told J.P...
...Stevens and Co...
...carrier or...
...copies printed (Net in separate beds so I could sleep at Press Run): 22,363...
...1 certify that My bossman told me, "If you the statements made by me above are correct and complete...
...Woman described and Rapids...
...NY 10016...
...2. half conspiratorial, and said, "My hus- all...
...He worked up therefor Stephen- There are hundreds of people all unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 1,135...
...NY 10016...
...She man out of church, they could fire him...
...the past can be made to serve the cause of archaeology, history...
...G. Total (sum of E and F should equal net son till he lost his leg in an accident in press run shown in A): 22,363...
...He wrote the Rev...
...Total (sum ofEand talk to him...
...2. Mail subscriptions: 16,385...
...textiles in 1974...
...brown lung disease, by breathing in cot- 1. Title of publication: COMMONWEAL...
...Returns from news agents: 1,145...
...Halas and didn't know...
...ALL ABOUT THE BIBLE with their cussedness and the other qual- is still considered an outsider in the town ALL ABOUT THE BIBLE is a series of ities which render them imperfect, and after a presence of 24 years...
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...3.5 Baptist minister from Raleigh, N.C., PAUL WILKES, a writer, is at work on a book Coming In September, 1980: about a Slovak immigrant family...
...In management as believably brand union essence, it constitutes a dazzling COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR., reviews movies compendium of Biblical fact...
...William Pfaff, Paris...
...Finlator, an unlikely Guide to the New TestamentThe Time of the Fugitive...
...E. Total distribution (sum of C and D): 20,106...
...One staunchly ing, the almost irresistible human im- anti-union worker told Conway with pulse to perceive a people in perfect ac- more than a trace of bitterness of the time cord with one's own political predisposi- "Stephenson got [a weaver] out of tions, in this case Marxism and, in recent church one Sunday to go in to the mill...
...I've gone to bed a thousand Dower...
...Estate of Oho L. Spaeth...
...7. Owner(Ifowned by a corporation, its coughing...
...And you will find the whole galaxy of Bible W. S. DWIERO is a poet whose work has perhaps the regional sentiment which has study: introduction, geography, harappeared in Hudson Review, The New Re- served the cause of reaction so often in mony of the Gospels, personalities, public, Southern Review and others...
...Publisher...
...we've finally had to sleep during preceding 12 months: A. Total no...
...scribed herself and other brown lung vic- Edward S. Skillin, 232 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016...
...Kathleen Casey Craig...
...Unless you're about myself, why doesn't the male in Matteson encourage them to achieve...
...less because of her coughing, and 20 East 81st St., New York, NY 10028...
...Management and Circulation (act of on labor relations," 62-year-old Lucy Lucy Taylor contracted byssinosis, or August 12, 1970: Section 3685, Title 39, united States Code...
...D. Free distribution by mail, carrier or other means, sample band, Earl, is sitting back there off the vens for "alienation of affection...
...I asked him what I same authors, or another team as compe- women who have successfully ac- was supposed to do, and he said he tent as they), "Since, I now feel fine complished the goals Drs...
...organizers "outside agitators...
...adding 754 postage, to MOREHOUSE-BARLOW 78 Danbury Road 12 October 1979: 573 Wilton, Connecticut 06897...
...mill village, which many observers have munities, could have profound implica- Arranged for study, reference, tions for the future of trade unionism in browsing, and, in parts, sustained America's last major unorganized man- reading, the ALL ABOUT THE BIBLE Series is characterized by accuracy of REVIEWERS ufacturing industry...
...Sewickley, Pa...
...seven books by Alice Parmelee, therefore human...
...These embarrassingly pietistic por- The conglomerates taking over the textraits are usually the product of over- tile industry often exhibit a complete disanalysis and ideological wishful think- regard for regional mores...
...C. Total paid circulation: 19,081...
...Stevens workers in of being torn from their roots and forced WORKERS Roanoke Rapids, site of the labor move- to leave home in search of work if they Mimi Conway ment's historic breakthrough in Southern are blacklisted in their own community...
...She relies almost entirely on unthinkable decision to join the Amal// WAS fourteen when I started work- the words of the mill workers she writes ing in the mills, and thirty-six years about...
...Any male author daring to chines going, you can't go to the which may take the prize for longest sen- write such an equal however, would be bathroom...
...Actual number of copies of a '68...
...women, this may not be an issue any book first...
...change, in the therapeutic setting...
...Introducing the Bible - $3.50 University...
...6. Names and For the last ten or fifteen years, addresses of publisher, editor and managing editor...
...RONALD CHRIST is Editor of Review, pub- of the other parts of the country...
...Others still sentee ownership of large Northern corbelieve the union "a tool of the Devil porations like Stevens...
...Here for Commonweal...
...New Milford, Conn...
...a title Any offers...
...Too many sympathetic social he got a job he could handle...
...Now, boy, critics have caricatured mill workers as if you can't handle your job, it's working-class heroes with a Southern ac- 'boom,, '' cent...
...W.W...
...smart enough to keep all these mamy life feel fine.about me...
Vol. 106 • October 1979 • No. 18
