Textile Workers Of South Follow Danville Fight
Textile Workers Of South Follow Danville Fight Green Proposal for Settlement Fails — Fight Goes On—Funds Are Needed By Louis Stanley DANVILLE, Va. — Returning from a trip to the...
...Peace Bid Fails The arbitration offer mads by Pres...
...Returning from a trip to the neighbor* ing textile centers of North Carolina your correspondent Is side to report the intense Interest with which the workers in Leaksville, Reidsville, Spray and Greensboro are following the struggle hers of the four thousand men and women in revolt against the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills...
...Little damage was done and nobody injured...
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...Whatever the outcome of 1 Democratic - Republican alrflH may be, the Socialists of Bstfl are in a better position than ej before to wage a vigorous ,efl paign...
...Returning from a trip to the neighbor* ing textile centers of North Carolina your correspondent Is side to report the intense Interest with which the workers in Leaksville, Reidsville, Spray and Greensboro are following the struggle hers of the four thousand men and women in revolt against the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills...
...There has been an improvement in the cotton goods market...
...Colemawas held for the military authorities...
...Payne declared his information was that "no such condition exists" as the hunger of great numbers of farmers in that region...
...Two new dynamiting* have taken place, one in the mill village of Schoolfleld, the other, the first such instance in the city of Danville itself, in both cases the homes of strike breakers are involved...
...Green of the American Federation of Labor to the Riverside ft Dan River cotton mills has brought no response from the company except the laconic statement of Pres...
...It now appears that Green and the U. T. W. leaders were ready to concede all the points at issue except one—the right of the Dan River and Riverside Mills manage| ment to discharge workers because I they Joined the union...
...Rufus Moseley has been elected president of the Danville Central Labor Union...
...Mailie Rather, strikers, were returning from the meeting when tap...
...J The stipulation that WltaW considering only city hall oOM significant While the Deanta are willing to share with t M publicans what the Socialists g have, they are not willing tog vide the county plume which til still think are theirs...
...200 Soldiers Remain fijl More soldiers have been withdrawn so that only some 200 StiM remain...
...H. R Fitzgerald...
...privates, Otis M Brown and John Coleman, accosted them...
...If they e could have secured a non-discrimination pledge from President Fitzgeral of the company, the strikers could have maintained their union after going back to work, and could have prepared for another fight over wages and speedup...
...When asked what the Red Cross is doing to feed the millions of unemployed, Payn e answered "Nothing...
...It is expected that the company will try to fill the much needed orders...
...Bu t against these influences were arrayed the organized cotton mil...
...It assumes responsibility for relief work only in the ; farming regions...
...Two new dynamiting* have taken place, one in the mill village of Schoolfleld, the other, the first such instance in the city of Danville itself, in both cases the homes of strike breakers are involved...
...Some workers from Gastonia, Leakesvuie and Greensboro, N. C. have arrived but have beea induced to return home...
...His continuance of silence was not unexpected by the strikers or by the citizens of the town...
...BMMn insisted that Miss Brown w«f Wt spy dressed in men's clothing aa#l proceeded to prove his coateaftfijjH expeditiously...
...This makes it more imperative than ever to rush relief to the strikers...
...The city and county authorities have offered a thousand dollars each for the arrest and conviction of the dynamiters...
...Green's address...
...Great pressure was brought to bear upon Fitzgerald -and upon prominent stockholders...
...Southern Mill Workers Watch Danville Strik (Contimed from Tf One) and the drought which has diminished the tobacco crop account for some of the loss an analysis of the clearings by months indicates that the smaller payrolls due to the strike have injured business...
...But even though the torn is effected in Reading, the M l ists feel certain of their scflttM go before the people and winj | every Democrat or every ti|H e lican can be led by the noseuB Socialist party workers fsfH enough inc^pendent-niindedj party voters rejecting foMf l again elect Sodelirfa to city] flees...
...Green's proffer of peas* has simply left the workers in a better moral position...
...newspaper, which - states that Green "urges workers return to work immediately oa basis of no discrimination and right to retain union membership.'* They say the word "urges" is misleading but they have so littls> faith in the two local newspapers owned by Rover James, a larga stockholder in the mills, that they ' have already laughed the matter The union has accompanied the Green proposal with intensified picketing...
...The union claims that the scabs engineer these blasts la order to secure police protection...
...Thus far it has contented itself with forcing out only the mors active members of the union...
...Rumors bars bass, spread in textile centers in the south that the Danville strike has ended...
...Peace Bid Fails The arbitration offer mads by Pres...
...cials of the United Textile Workers of America and leaders of the 4,060 strikers at the cotton textile mills in Danville, Va., were deepe ly disappointed that they were unable to announce a compromise settlement of the great strike, when President Green of the American Federation of Labor addressed the strikers just before the New Year...
...The company may increase the number of its evictions from its miserable mill houses...
...Green of the American Federation of Labor to the Riverside ft Dan River cotton mills has brought no response from the company except the laconic statement of Pres...
...I have nothing whatever to say...
...They do resent, however, a headline in the Register, morning...
...The company may increase the number of its evictions from its miserable mill houses...
...newspaper, which - states that Green "urges workers return to work immediately oa basis of no discrimination and right to retain union membership.'* They say the word "urges" is misleading but they have so littls> faith in the two local newspapers owned by Rover James, a larga stockholder in the mills, that they ' have already laughed the matter The union has accompanied the Green proposal with intensified picketing...
...The Bca4sA»afiH| ence of the militia will make It easier for the strikers to carry, out their legal rights of picketing The remarkable self -diacl(flH^H the strikers is once more abotfifM by the restraint they have dt§» played In the assault case that curred following Pres...
...Ella Brown and Mrs...
...The mere suggesttSH fusion has strengthened taej| clalist party's chances In a tJM way fight by proving the on munity of Interest which dfl mates both old (capitalist!*)* ties...
...Some Virginia politicians, fearing a growth of industrial discontent in their state, were disappointed, too...
...Green's address...
...Rumors bars bass, spread in textile centers in the south that the Danville strike has ended...
...I have nothing whatever to say...
...Chairman Smoot of the finance committee, defending Payne, asked about the reports of hunger-rioting at England, Ark...
...The city and county authorities have offered a thousand dollars each for the arrest and conviction of the dynamiters...
...The peaceful behavior of the strikers has finally convince* even the military1 that troops s jH unnecessary...
...Moseley is vice-president of the U. T. W. local and the first member of the National Executive Board of th United Textile Workers to come from the South The election of Moseley is looked upon as a compliment both to him and to the fighting textile workers who now account for four thousand of the five or six thousand trade unionists in the city...
...Mailie Rather, strikers, were returning from the meeting when tap...
...BMMn insisted that Miss Brown w«f Wt spy dressed in men's clothing aa#l proceeded to prove his coateaftfijjH expeditiously...
...H. R Fitzgerald...
...Practically the entire time at the meeting: of the Leaksvills local of the United Textile Workers which embraces Reidsville and Spray was taken up with a discussion of the Danville situation...
...It is expected that the company will try to fill the much needed orders...
...They do resent, however, a headline in the Register, morning...
...The union claims that the scabs engineer these blasts la order to secure police protection...
...Colemawas held for the military authorities...
...The Bca4sA»afiH| ence of the militia will make It easier for the strikers to carry, out their legal rights of picketing The remarkable self -diacl(flH^H the strikers is once more abotfifM by the restraint they have dt§» played In the assault case that curred following Pres...
...An attempt to has* Brown's sentence suspended failed,' How the strike has affected thS business community is shown by figures that the Federated Press correspondent has obtained from the banking officials in the city, Danville showed bank clearing tat' 1020 of $117,964,108.83...
...Little damage was done and nobody injured...
...In the city police' court Brown was Sued $25 fijM sentenced to 30 days in Jail...
...In one recent case the culprit was caught red handed...
...The merchants are anxious to see the strike setUed but are too much under the domination of Fitzgerald and the banking fraternity to raise their voices no matter what their personal views...
...An attempt to has* Brown's sentence suspended failed,' How the strike has affected thS business community is shown by figures that the Federated Press correspondent has obtained from the banking officials in the city, Danville showed bank clearing tat' 1020 of $117,964,108.83...
...In one recent case the culprit was caught red handed...
...Thus far it has contented itself with forcing out only the mors active members of the union...
...200 Soldiers Remain fijl More soldiers have been withdrawn so that only some 200 StiM remain...
...Ella Brown and Mrs...
...The peaceful behavior of the strikers has finally convince* even the military1 that troops s jH unnecessary...
...privates, Otis M Brown and John Coleman, accosted them...
...But they were unwilling to come forward with advice to the management to meet the strikers halfway...
...than ever to rush relief to the strikers...
...owners of the South, with their political and banking connections, raising the cry that New England mill owners were trying to cheat Reading, Pa., Socialist Face Fusion Movement (CMIIIMI from F»ft DMI t that the Republicans may be st ing more than their share of i spoils when he declares: IfJ fusion, Mr...
...His continuance of silence was not unexpected by the strikers or by the citizens of the town...
...Some workers from Gastonia, Leakesvuie and Greensboro, N. C. have arrived but have beea induced to return home...
...Practically the entire time at the meeting: of the Leaksvills local of the United Textile Workers which embraces Reidsville and Spray was taken up with a discussion of the Danville situation...
...In the city police' court Brown was Sued $25 fijM sentenced to 30 days in Jail...
...There has been an improvement in the cotton goods market...
...Green's proffer of peas* has simply left the workers in a better moral position...
...A. He said that unemployment fs the problem of the cities and industrial centers, and that the Red Cross leaves to local charities and other agencies the relief of all suffering from unemployment...
...This makes it more imperative Red Cross Gives $1.15 For Family for Month (Continued (rem F&fc Om«) Barton and Copeland, Payne stated that the American Red Cross relief funds might get down to only $1,000,000, but he said he would not worry until that happened...
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...WASHINGTON — (FP)—Offi...
...Esterly means a 1 certed effort on the part ati setter elements of both parttet find available men for ourij hall offices, then, certeiatjta Democratic county commltWi ready at any time...
Vol. 12 • January 1931 • No. 2
