Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1929 — Page 28

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DIXIE STRIKES COMPARED TO FAMILY FEUDS Relations Between Owners and Workers Close in Older Mills. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING GASTONIA, N. C, April 26. When strikes occur in the organized north, employers and strikers face each other like two disciplined armies, full of class feeling. In the great southern textile section which centers here, the dozen strikes which have suddenly flared up to disrupt an industrial peace of many years more nearly resemble a family quarrel. This seemingly frivolous com-

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parison Is literally true, although it Is complicated by outside influences, in the persons, first, of Fred Beal, George Pershing and Ellen Dawson, the "two boys and a girl" communist leaders who tied up the huge Loray mill here and sent a shiver of fear down the back of mill owners of the whole south, and second, in the persons of northern managers, who have tried to introduce efficiency systems. But few are the older mills, at least, where managers and foremen do not number relatives among the workers, and where the relationship, at least until recently, has not oeen that of a big family. The mill labor here is 95 per cent descended of old American stock. Their ancestors of Mecklenberg county, adjoining Gastpn, met on May 20, 1775, and drew up the famous "Mecklenberg resolutions" which declared them free of Britain’s king, and almost exactly paralleled in language the Declaration of Independence of a year later. Certain leaders of this section, poverty-stricken after the Civil war, raised a little money and started cotton mills. The industry has

grown and grown until in Gaston county alone there are said to be 115 mills, with hundreds more scattered ail through the Piedmont section of the two Carolinas. Until a few years ago they were practically all locally controlled. Then northern capital began to come in. * Practically all of the mill# own huge tracts of land upon which they have built the "mill villages” in which their workers live. Simple four and five-room houses, with garden spots, are rented at 25 cents a room a week, with light usually iree and coal at cost. "I know wages seem low by northern standards and hours are long," raid a Gastonia business man who has installed machinery in eightyfive of the county's mills. Wages

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run from $9 a week for girls to $25 a week for the most skilled operatives, and most of the mills are run on two shifts, operating twenty-four hours. Both men and women work on night shifts. "But that low' rent counts for a lot, food is cheap, and I’ll venture to say that a family making $25 a week here is better off than one with a SSO a week income in northern cities. 14-Foot Letter Sign Largest ffv Times Snrrial EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 26. This city boasts the largest electric

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sign in Indiana, that of the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, letters of which are fourteen feet high. It contains the letter, "S. I. G. & E. Cos.” Officials estimate that current to operate it would light 100 homes.

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