THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
Textile Bosses of South to Control j Labors Thinking, Threaten to Fire Men Who Read Literature of Trade Union Groups GREENSBORO. N. C—Employes of the Cone Cctton Mills nere were noti fled...
...He said he, his wife and sons attended every union meeting held in the "tater patch," and that, "I don't ask no mister man what, paper I ran read...
...The trade unionist asked why foremen and overseers are stationed at the union's headquarters, and why there petty bosses are so regular in attendance at...
...The News and Observer is a daily paper, of progressive tendencies, published by Joseph Daniels, Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson...
...Charles M. Gaskill, A. P. of L. organizer, replied: "We would like to have Mr...
...printed weekly, should satisfy them...
...O. L. Ozment, was earning $8.98 a week on a curtailed schedule...
...Publicity against the company's action stung Bernard M. Cone, who made the stereotype...
...Workers were also warned to s'btin trade union meetings, and told that the company's paper the Textnrian...
...plea that he does' not oppose trade unions...
...union mass meetings...
...One of the discharged workers...
...I don't take no cussed old Tex-torian, not if they give it to me...
...Cone explain, not to us but to the public, why 70 workers and their families were discharged for attending union meetings, and why eight families were ejected and thrown into the streets...
...His wage on a 54-hour schedule, was ¥16.46, "This is the first time In my 28 years of married life that my wife has had to work and help me make a living," said Ozment...
...Dirty pack of lies that the union organizers have been issuing since this campaign—if it may be called that—began here," shrieked the excited Mr...
...N. C—Employes of the Cone Cctton Mills nere were noti fled that if they read trade union lit-erature or the Raleigh News and Ob- j server they will be discharged...
...Textile Bosses of South to Control j Labors Thinking, Threaten to Fire Men Who Read Literature of Trade Union Groups GREENSBORO...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 40
