TROOPS FIGHT LORAY MILL STRIKE; REVOLT AGAINST STARVATION WAGES AND SPEED-UP SWEEPS THE SOUTHLAND
Troops Fight Loray Mill Strike; Revolt Against Starvation Wages And Speed-Up Sweeps The Southland fHWe Factories Hit by Sfcfce- — Wilson Calls Eg Vigorous Offensive —rraBTON-SALEM N. C—...
...that the government abandon its marine insurance business...
...jhar Hew England Southern mills at S.- C, model mm town, were to abandon speedup by a two-day Hjlltj- The Branjkm mills strikers at ^••mssffle...
...S. C. So the IBjl nearly unbhsnfahed no-strike rec^Bu|aaM at in a million dollars worth : "jpaawstlswnf iilii in recent years, is vanMi« ss supposedly docile, 100% Amer||3|pnt h Bscs: of this sudden strike ^KpSwir siiiTTiiTTii the road...
...Widespread unemployment and the shunting of 300,000 railroad workers out of the industry in the past nine years, are given as the reasons dictating the new policy...
...The Federation is in touch with this fight In the Piedmont section chiefly through ,two of its general organizers, who are assigned to cooperate with the Piedmont Organizing Council...
...But as stockholders now hold 7 shares for each $100 share owned in 1922 the actual rate of return is over 50...
...The return to its owners is reckoned at $7.31 on each $25 par share or 29.2...
...Thousands of locomotive firemen have been thrown out of work by the perfecting of big locomotives, shea said...
...These mills are located in Union County, near Union...
...the next day to comply...
...they had plotted and succeeded In bringing about an estrangement between him aad 'Billing...
...Walsh had warned him a year sgs that the I. L. D. people were aaaaaoBm and that no one could work with them, bat that be disregarded the warning in the belief that the...
...Actually it is giving the owners about $1.210,000 on an luteaUnent which originally bad no real value...
...It was of old deefarad iamt'ene asmnet serve two Masters...
...The new secretary of commerce, Lanvmt...
...The bad cotton market of •mnd years past sent Smmaadi of poor aim in, with their families, flocking mi Ok aunt...
...Pres...
...aa Infer fat Mf complex by sitting at the board with these trying to destroy labar ameahaa and Hi Ship Owners Are Seeking More Plunder Chamber of Commerce Also Wants Laws Protecting Seamen Wiped Off Books Bv Laurence Todd WTASHINQTON—Turning over to the private shipping trust of the government's highly profitable Panama Railroad Steamship tine and the Army Transport Service, the scrapping of 442 laid-up government ships, repeal of laws protecting seamen and the traveling public against the greed and folly of the vessel owners—these are high spots in the program which a special committee is reporting to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at its forthcoming annual meeting in Washington...
...Sad yet southern chambers of eesa-eree advertise to ether sections of the |taatry that we 1M% American work0 ate docile...
...No matter how Innocuous the name or title of the agency in question, it has been caught playing the part of the agent provocateur...
...Ward BakJgn Corp...
...The hearing was held on the Bogce but to license industrial detectives and spy agencies, introduced at the leanest of the Hosiery Werkers* Union and the State Federation of Labor...
...Mayor Stump told of the efforts of private detectives to start trouble in Reading in the Noe Equl hosiery strike last summer, and of his experience with dicks as a labor organiser to years past...
...And in order that private shipowners may make higher profits it tkmsnda that the safeguards to life and ta labor conditions at sea be largely ararndoned...
...The history at these corporations shows that to moot Instances stock dividends and aplit-upa have been resorted to conceal emldtont returns which frequently ran to mors than 100% on the original investment...
...Maintenance of the Naval Reserve on an adequate basis," is interpreted as meaning "Turning the Naval Reserve over to a profit-making institution for the shipowners...
...As the owners now hold S shares for each $100 share owned prior to 1924 this means an actual return of about 22.7...
...In 1925 the,, totals had been 248,974 for the five southern states, 164,954 for the New England states, and 33,256 for New York and Pennsylvania...
...The Fleischmann 1928 profits amounted to $19,820,688 establishing a new record more than 100% larger than the profits made as recently as 1924...
...National guardsmen patrol the streets...
...Neither the railway labor act, nor any taw," tmnsdered Shea, "wtB prevent the ratines' i iplajiiia fe—a strutter far jmhTse, Qasatams arm arise that the taaammeam win net arbitrate, which will leave the striae the only w«p»n for as to as...
...Bran Flakes and the other Post products but also Minute Tapioca, Jell-O, Swan's Down cake flour...
...Mare Intelligent employers sre *atsi mat whue speedup is fine...
...3,293,542...
...Bat the industrialization et Sa south has proceeded so rapidly, xohmtiarly in the Carolina Piedmont and hi tas Tennessee rayon belts, that the sanmadhr Inexhaustible labor reservoir fc aagkmmg to show bottom...
...Matthew WoU of the National Civic Federation, the commerce committee of the American Bar Assn...
...Wlnslow had just told the firemen that the Watson-Parker act precluded the necessity for strikes...
...Five hundred twisters, lacers, rellcrs and coners are now out...
...Northern hassriabsta, in fact, are being lured to newsna and Texas an this score...
...Trade Union League Lead re* in South GREENSBORO, N. C— (PP) — Rose Bchneidennan, president of the National Women's Trade Union League, principal speaker at the first educational session held by the Greensboro Central Labor Union, pleaded for stronger unionism and for development of women's organisations in the labor movement in the South...
...But If we ge back as far as 1922 we And that the 4,500,000 shares now outstanding originally represented an Investment of not more'than $3,000,000 so original owners are now enjoying a return of something like 650% on the money they put into the business...
...It means also UjeT^roviding of new shipbuilding contracts, at high profit, to American private yards, with money furnished at 3tt percent by the government...
...Rail Unions To Fight For 6-Hour Day Four Brotherhoods Announce Aggressive Campaign to Gain MuchNeeded Reform DOSTON—(FP)—In the same city where 13 years ago the rail brotherhoods announced the opening of their historic fight for the 8-hour day, brotherhood chieftains have laid down the 6-hour day as the next goal of union transport workers...
...Matilda Lindsay, organizer for the League, has made a canvass of the Greensboro area, and has gone to Elizabeth ton, Term., to enroll new trade unionists there, in consequence of the strike of rayon mill workers...
...Postum Co., with a 1928 profit of $17,586,477 is a close third...
...In some hosiery mills," asserted Sec...
...He expressed disappointment that WoU...
...that the Army Transport Service be abolished, and the carrying of the Army personnel arid freight in time of peace be let out at private contract...
...has been spreading rapidly...
...TomMooney Repudiates Corn-mist Group A recent letter by Tom Mooney pnb> lishod in the Newark Monitor, an A- X of L. paper, scores the In taxational Labor Defense for its dfagufaed arm harmful rols of eoltections and-distributkw of money...
...Timothy Shea of the Brotherhood of locomotive Firemen, addressing New England conferences of their unions at Faneuil Hall and the American House, announced the new industrial goal...
...Approximately 800 mill workers are affected by the strike in the Union-Buffalo Mills...
...Strike* an tier Brandon mills have spread to the fj itn at Spartanburg, 8. C. with 500 ^Spi 'hwotred...
...Revolt Against Starvation Wages And Speed-Up Sweeps The Southland fHWe Factories Hit by Sfcfce- — Wilson Calls Eg Vigorous Offensive —rraBTON-SALEM N. C— (TP)— W-Workers of the south are dlscon^j^j dissatisfied with present labor —Bans," asserts Pres...
...including human safety...
...They mean the turning over to the shipowners, to deal with as they please, all conditions aboardshin...
...A. F. of L. Watching Cotton Mill Slaves Revolt WASHINGTON—PP)—Officials in the American Federation of Labor headquarters and at the U. S. Department of Labor are watching with eager interest the recent epidemic of strikes in cotton mills In South Carolina, following closely upon the strike in the rayon plants at Elizabetbton, Term, They believe the cotton mill hands are at last starting a general revolt against the speeding-up, low pay and long hours that thus far have marked this non-union' industry in the South...
...This issue is a wage cut from 8%c to 6c a pound on piece work...
...l,3«t MOKE QUIT UNION, S. C.—One thousand operatives of the Monarch Mills, near here, have walked out in protest against the "efficiency" system which has been in force at the plant for some time...
...Among witnesses appearing for the bm were Dr...
...Fred E. Beal, Communist organizer, revealed the usual ineptitude of the Communists and endangered the success of the walk-out by issuing the following statement: "This is the first strike of our national union and we intend to make this a big success...
...A P. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, successor of William G. Lee, and Asst...
...The committee's report, in outline, has been furnished to the press under the claim that it Is a proposal for "removal of handicaps burdening American shipping, not the least of which is government competition.'* It is offered when Congress is about to meet...
...2 of actual walkouts in addition to those which began in Greenville mills the previous week...
...It would he impossible to imagine a mere Imssssfilr and more improper position...
...The largest profits of this group went to the Pleiar.hmann Co...
...Three hundred employees at the Ottaray Mills, a unit of the Monarch, also walked out...
...by 12 Corporations in 1928, Figures Indicate fir Inland Olds ^reported for ltnt by 12 us^sntlissi of the points at which financiers gab the consumer's food dollar before It reches the farmer...
...We are receiving aid in our strike here from the official organ to the Communist party of America...
...Cotton Mill Wage Averages $814.61 a Year WASHINGTON—(PP)—At the moment that it discloses that the average annual wage paid to all workers In manufacturing plants in North Carolina, for 1927, was $77130, or about half the average wage In manufacturing plants in the North, the U. S. Department of Commerce also reveals the low average of wages in cotton goods manufacture throughout the country...
...Furuseth descried this as "making each seaman carry his own blacklist...
...J. Henry'Stump, Socialist mayor of Reading...
...It ¦¦sat ha administered in smaller doses, •"Sep am wuthets get used to It by de- Wli i¦ at the Brandon mills in Bmajtase...
...N. C.— <FP)—Kxecujapafp- *—'— "— ' — asaSag to Charlotte, have found no way .^stsp the spreading of the revolt of H >bwtchk« out" system...
...Garner, on request of Sheriff E. P. Lineberger and Chief of Police Aderbolt, ordered the Oastorrta Howitzer Company mobilized...
...which tarns out the greater part of the yeast used in the country's bread...
...Their 95,786 wage earners were 20.5 percent of the total...
...T. A. Wilson of ^jtarth Carolina Federation of Labor, lljrty appointed state Industrial coma4ooer...
...He begins by saying that the Merchant Marine Acts of 1919,1920 and 1928, which sought to scrap the government merchant fleet, did not go far enough...
...lefts" would rivet attention on his cam by paboctty among the workers...
...In his letter Mooney directs attention to the fact that Frank P. Walsh has voluntarily taken up his cam, and the only organization legitimately eoBssthsg for his defense Is the Mooney Holders' Defense Committee eaaaaaaaj of members of bis Local Union...
...The Brandon werkers at an evening meeting voted to demand Immediate discontinuance of the labor extension" system recently introduced in their plant They gave their mill bosses'until 3 pjn...
...blew the mill whistle and ••at sown the plants...
...Unionemployer agreements and contracts would be registered with this council to be made legally binding, and in case of dispute, the council would hand down awards...
...The Monarch is a unit of the UnionBuffalo Mills...
...This was decided at a mass meeting held by* the operatives following a conference of the strike* committee and mill officials Tuesday afternoon...
...Its obvious purpose is the killing of a real merchant marine for the United States, and the piling up of higher profits for American private shipyards and certain American shipowners, at ths expense of the nation and its seaman and traveling public...
...Fight In Congress Bees, These demands are a challenge to the Hoover administration...
...His statement means that the engineers and conductors will go along with the train men and firemen in the fight for the shorter work day...
...Communists, through their "National Textile Workers Union," claim credit for organizing the workers...
...Georgia had 139 plants with 56,607 workers...
...Neither fa m finftlr to serve by and waflt the apea shoppers en" en* sasamm and serve la tar in another...
...The communist agents even did something wane than that...
...SPARTANBURG, S. O—Union-Buffalo Mill operatives who went out on a strike Monday night, have declined to accept the offer of mill executives to return to their posts under the existing conditions at the time the strike was precipitated, according to information irons Union...
...William Smith of the Hosiery Workers...
...According to officials, the strike affects 125 weavers and approximately 875 persons employed In other departments...
...We feel confident that this Loray strike will be the beginning of a tremendous Southwlde movement to organise thoroughly in every State...
...Brandoa Workei Hit aLSoeed-Un grunvtlls, a c—(PP)—The fourth strike against speedup m this section within, two weeks comes close on the heels of the victory won by strikers at the Mew Shetland Southern textile mfns at Pelser...
...B. C. are still on strike in •» aast weak of April against speedup, taaVCbaries O. Wood, XT...
...Standard Oil Shares Profit...
...Other profits In this list were: Purity Bakeries S4.815.955...
...Fixing of Panama Canal tolls in proper relation to costs Including charges" is a new phrase for repeal of canal tolls for American ships—a thing forbidden by treaty with Britain...
...Lawyers JJnion Wants Comoulsorv Arbitration After extended conferences with an A. F. of L. committee beaded by Pres...
...They were collecting money for the cam of Mooney and Billings, hat not a cent of It has ever reached them or the Mooney Defense Committee...
...has recommended compulsory arbitration in labor disputes...
...Following the Wmr ft Mea raansstoff and BetnberK genu srBl workers, cotton null operatives • BvSa Ceruhus Piedmont began striking atltwn Shoals and Pater...
...Want Army Transport Trade...
...National Biscuit Co...
...No demonstrations occurred, the walkout being accomplished In an orderly manner...
...Rhode Island 66 plants with 28,203 workers, and Alabama 68 plants with 24,825 wage earners...
...The A. y of L. at the New Orleans convention mH we should doable our membership at IKS...
...Strikes If Necessary...
...OHIO BATON STRIKE CLEVELAND, O—(FP)—Starting with a walkout of 200 women workers, a strike at the rayon plant of the Industrial Fibre Co...
...United Biscuit $1,205,856 and Standard Milling Co...
...The rapitmHmation of them food products mergers is based on a alteration of excess profits used for plant expansion...
...Pennsylvania 107 plants with 12,160 workers...
...that the government-owned and operated Panama Railway Steamship Line be handed over to private interests...
...Asm tt m Ugh time a reaBsstkm of tats fact sank into the a ha art lis isnhihto ¦¦¦¦fSflMj ef these who sasy have been flatterins...
...with a 1928 profit of $17,883,363 comes second hi the list...
...They are still •'••** *» the Appfcton and Western Splnnirjg nulla in Greenville speedup tu abandoned through a strike threat...
...R. Raymond Petty of the Philadelphia Temple Baptist church...
...Since ^P^ajnVaar hamrrectton of "mill hands'" SJS esnsjiirsil m 1923 by Injunction/ ^BMaAwtta, so few strikes have occurred Ippaf-BSi liaihvai press of the naUoc >wah the myth of docile labor...
...The five cotton-growing states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Virginia had 281,390 wage .workers in cotton mills, as compared with 155.642 in the five New England states and 30,584 in New York and Pennsylvania...
...Cereal Manufacturers Reap Fabulous Profits From Farmers9 Products More Than $100,000,000 Ptetted...
...Finally he found that the communists were using his cam for their own ends...
...On this $3,000,000 of capital stock outstanding before 1922 the yeast trust has turned over a profit ol about $90,000,000 in 6 years...
...Massachusetts had 163 with 90,875 workers...
...The American Bar Assn.'s report was made public by Rush C. Butler, corporation counsel and special pleader for the coal interests...
...General Baking, with a capacity to produce more than 500,000,000 loaves of bread a year took a profit of $7,545,789 ut its capitalisation has been subjected to so much Jusjgllng that it Is tmpossMs even to guess at the actual return which original owners are getting on their money...
...Workers at the Unas SaSsh mllh at Union, 8. C. hare teats oat- ! 'y^OJBsa asm owners find themselves Mr aaSjOOO mill operatives slues the ntajhen Tears of 1019-32...
...Ooaded into speedup for 10 h^asara a day, mains have rebelled ooksjht...
...MOKE BATON PLANTS IN SOUTH More rayon plants in the Southern bills are foreseen with the announcement that Bader Bros, rayon firm of Chechoslovakia has signed cuntracss with German engineering firms to bund rayon plants in the senaamra United States...
...John P. Frey and Victor A. Olander, of the A. F. of L. committee named to confer with the lawyers, had not ratified the document...
...oose Wiles $2,318,714...
...Maurer is in Harrtsburg for the State Federation convention, as a delegate from the Reading plumbers' union...
...The lawyers' union measure would create a federal industrial council...
...National Biscuit Sofand...
...Boyd of the Tennessee national guard charging that the 'management is flagrantly violating its agreement with the employes.'* The firms agreed not to discriminate against strike leaders or members of the new union in rehiring workers...
...Now the Chamber calls on him to sacrifice a billion dollars or more, of public property, in order that government competition with private shipping may end...
...North Carolina most do her w-t" . . Terkers in Six JSBsArt) Out ^SJaeVOTTK...
...pjc-KFPJ—The labor "spy was described before a Pennaylvanks legislative rranmHIeo hearing as "the most hxddtom and dangerous type of racketeer now thriving to this country...
...Few people know that the Inteowattoeal Labor Defence, in spite of its baparUal name is, in reality, run exclusively by the communist group...
...Corn...
...When morning conferences failed to reach an agreement, the workers blew the mttl whistle st 3 and walked, out en masse...
...When we strive to get Irving wages aad prevent the raaraeds tram warkmg men tong hems everthne wtthead press* essapmsatien, a siliiiiajlt i» Involved which Is net artrtrabte and tar whtea yea smwt fee pisjid to make a sacrifice...
...But the owners now bold more than 10 shares of no par common for each $100 share originally purchased the rate of return on their investment amounts to more than 130...
...S. labor coneBsUr advhijjg other mill workers not wMh: kt a general walkout soo workers *h)*Taj$)r»jpi mm at.Central, 8. <x, pp|haaai*enly when the management pmssed to revoke speedup orders...
...Blacklist la Proposed...
...Smith of the Hosiery Workers, the entire personnel management is being turned over to private detective agencies who pose as efficiency engineers, 'industrial counsellors,' and what not...
...Calumet baking powder and Maxwell House coffee...
...The victory of workers at sjBJsabethton, Term-, will lend much ajaft to ether factory workers in this jgjUan, ss illustrated by the immediate j^toe of textile workers at Muscle Dir«- and Falser, S. C. '%-uf local anion in North Caxo^ the south should immediately turi „ organization campaign- With tfeb) cssapaign much educational work ,acgl-i be done among all workers vbetber there's a prospect of an immUt'- organization or not...
...Of the 1,347 plants reporting on cotton goods to the 1927 census of manufactures, which publishes these figures, 374 were located in orth Carolina...
...These' figures are to be used by the American Federation of Labor in such efforts as it makes, this year, to break the anti-union front maintained by big employers, south of the Potomac...
...COSSACK BILL ADVANCES SPRINGFIELD, HL— (FF> — Despite strenuous labor efforts the nitoab) senate passed second reading of the state constabulary bill It has been defeated in three previous oraitoni of the legislature...
...tm ammdbtte cause of the strike wave * the - titimhrtlon of labor efficiency aaaasj...
...Products Refining Co., controlled by Standard OU interests, with a 1928 profit of $13,192,974 is giving its owners a return of $4.52 on each $25 share...
...The company purchases most of Its grain direct from farmers through a chain of country elevators which it owns...
...South Carolina had 163 plants With 75,069 wage workers...
...Since 1922 this company has turned a profit of about $86,6bo,000 on an investment of not more than $30,000,000...
...This average is $814.61, or $67.88 a month...
...is a farmer official of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...tt ¦aar Kight SUft Geteg Saws eaadhl employers are admitting BWflsiam era of the 12-hour night Sort and subsistence level wages is nearhgtoe end...
...If President Hoover accepts this program, he wffl have a hot fight on hat Labor Spy Fought In Penn...
...Removal of restrictions on the sale of ships under United States registry to aliens" means that the American shipyards want Congress to permit the sale of any or all American merchant ships- to the British or other foreign companies, according to the policy of the International Shipping Federation, Lt...
...They were cheered by a large crowd which had gathered outside the plant...
...The trouble started when company deputies and police on Wednesday tried to rope off the streets near the Loray textile plant...
...Gustavo Geiges and Sec...
...Postum is one of the corporations around which New York bankers are rapidly building a food trust...
...B. Phenix, A. P. of L. representative at Bhaabethton during the recent strike of 5,500 GlansstofI and Bemberg rayon mill workers, has wired Gen...
...The new walkout involves 1,250 workers at the Brandon textile nulls in Greenville and ties up the 83,000 spindles of that ti.500.ooo firm...
...Our union is not connected with the Communist party, but after our union is granted its 'demands, the Communist group will come in with its political-educational program...
...Then come demands for "revision" of the navigation laws and laws affecting the Steamboat Inspection Service, and "Revision of the Sea-men's Act in minor particulars which would not adversely affect the seamen...
...Pose As Efficiency Men...
...All four of the train service brotherhoods are committed to the 6-hour day policy," announced Whitney, as Faneuil Hall shook to the last of its old rafters Tith applause from brakemen...
...Greenville, Woodruff, Union and Central are the towns .from which word came on Apr...
...Pres...
...In addition to its regular plants located in meet of the country's important cities it now controls the Shredded Wheat Co...
...This gave stockholders a return of $4-39 on each no par share, or about 36.3% on the present book value of the stock...
...The strikers are demanding a 40 hour week, a $20 weekly minimum wage, cheaper rents and better working conditions...
...Rail workers will use the strike weapon to achieve their end, Shea told locomotive firemen in retorting to Chairman Wlnslow of the U. 3. railway mediation board...
...Mooney writes that Mr...
...Negotiations for settling the strikes are in the hands of a committee of strikers actually employed In the mill...
...Merger of 1,700.roads Into IS or 20 systems, now leaning, win put another 20.000 firemen out of Jobs, he warned, unless Tacoma Labor Paper Bits WoVCs Presidency Of Civic Federation TACOMA, Wash.— FP)—Discussing the opposition ef the National ClTie Federation to llg—ifclil labor's old age adatore, the Taeeaaa Labor Advocate says: "The bead at Ike National Civic Federation that thus fought labor also Matthew WoU, vice ariaMial of the American Fagaiilliu of Labor, and the laapiieaJHi is immediately conveyed to the unorganized and many of the ¦nargiiiln il workers that Ubor is facing both ways on the proposition...
...Its products now include not only Postum, Grapenuts, Post Toss ties...
...Asked what these two demands mean, Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union of America, said: "They mean the repeal or emasculation of every law for the protection ol seamen and the traveling public that has been passed since 1790...
...James H. Maurer, former president of the State Federation of Labor and now Beading councilman...
...At Elizabethton, Tenn., Glanzstoff rayon workers who won their strike for higher wages are '¦omplalnlng that the German management has already treated the understanding reached as a scrap of paper...
...and a West Virginia nuns worker...
...Robert W. Dunn, co-author of The Labor Spy, and a labor authority on industrial espionage, submitted a brief on Undercover Men and Their Activities, in support of the union position on the bill...
...Fred W. Sargent, president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, is chairman of the committee making this report...
...Rayon Firms Violating Agreement KUZABSTHTON, Term.—iPP)—J...
...He takm to witness no less a person than Frank F. Walsh who...
...How are we to have higher standards in American industry under such conditions...
...Fleiichmanri markets its yeast directly through 9«0 selling agencies .to 300,000 bakeries and retail distributors...
...Quaker Oats reports a 1926 profit of $8,329,646 given out as a return of $12.88 a share...
...The 1928 profit is shown ss s return of $3.75 a share but as the shares have a book value of about $8.25 this means a return of 45.4% without taking into account stock dividends through which the owners now hold.4 shares for each original share...
...Continents!listing with a profit of $5,273,302 reports a return of $4.14 on the no par Class A ootnmon stock...
...Baker's chocolate, Blue Ribbon mayonnaise, Log Cabin syrup...
...Charles Kats of the machinists...
...North Carolina, center of the cotton mill industry, by its own general low level of wages, brings down the average wage level for the cotton mills, while the cotton mills' aid in the process of holding down all other wages in the South...
...Other demands include "The keeping of discharge books in which the character of service of seamen is recorded...
...when the boss refused to give maseedup...
...Them is a naive pubhe that responds to every appeal tor ftwdv and the International Labor Defense remtsm accounting byUie ^t^D^ andltow* last two or three years this oolbxQng agency has been often chaikxarod...
...Agencies which are convicted"of jury fixing one day are hired the next day to help manage an important industrial establishment...
...So he demands that the 442 government ships now held in reserve be scrapped...
...Bill Stb^pandMsdirer Jomm bemaud for licensing of Detectives DARBJSBURa...
...later the Shelby Infantry and l.lnromtnn cavalry were sent to Gastonia...
...Manville Jenckes Plant in Gastonia Completely Shut Down-SoMier* Patrol Streets GASTONIA, N. O—Troops haws been called out as a result of a strike against the Lorey plant of the Manvffle Jenckes Co...
...Pres...
...Three strikes in two weeks -.factory workers In two states, and the * ||tn|r 0f an efficiency survey in an2ac plant shows that the Anglo-Saxon workers of the south are determined to Me the situation...
...1,688,908...
...Hoover has stressed his hostility to having the government compete with private business enterprises...
...Tom Mooney who has languished In a California prison for tlilihmii years, a victim of a frame-up, ta the attest to complain of the insincerity of the International Labor Defense...
...I can say," he stated, "from my experience in the past 10 years, that I have come upon no undercover -concern that has not at one time or other employed Illegal, and often violent methods to obtain their end—and this end has usually been destructive of some legitimate trade union or the thwarting of some organization move on the part of such a union...
...at one time, tried to help the communists...
...The m wets entered their objection to the "stretch out" system, and when they quit their posts other employes followed...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 12
