Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1929 — Page 16

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MILL OWNERS ARE SPLIT ON STRIKE STAND Two Lean Toward Side of Workers, Opinion of Sinclair Lewis. This ft the third of a series by Sinclair Lewis, noted author of “Main Street.’* on Strike ronditions at Marion, N. C.. in which via hare been kill'd and twenty wounded. Lewi* ni sent to Marion by The Times and other Scrippa-Howard newt.*# per*. BV SINCLAIR LEWIS (Copyright. 1329' In this particular article dealing with, the situation at Marion, N. C.. where on Oct. 2, certain men were killed and more than twenty were wounded. I want to be respectful. I am afraid that in some of the preceding articles I have not been so respectful as an author should be, If he is to be received, one of these bright days, in the country houses of the gentry. Here, I want to take up the millowners, and naturally, in dealing with them and not with the strikers, it is not possible for me to be other than respectful. The crux at the present moment In Marion is the Marion Manufacturing Company, locally known as the Baldwin mill. R. W. Baldwin is the president and general manager. He is a small, bewildered man who dashes about. On my first morning in Marion he sought me out to give me his version of the strike trouble. And. as one who has every desire to be completely fair, I wish to repeat that version, which is this; Bill Ross, the local strike loader, HAD HEAD ACHE AND AWFUL INDIGESTION Man and Wife Suffered Ten Years, Then Found Quick Relief.

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; threatened a new strike several days ibefore the shooting. | That is all Baldwin’s version, and I fair enough, too. Now there comes In someone whom I wish to add to the names of Squire Adkins, the sheriff, and Squire Morgan, the lawyer, as somebody to be remembered in American history. That is Miss Sally. Miss Sally Baldwin is an unmarried lady who lives in Baltimore. She owns most of the stock of the Marion Manufacturing Company. The theoretical head of the company, R W. Baldwin, is her cousin. “Miss Sally” is a name famous in Marion. It probably would be difficult for her. the absentee owner, at her home in Baltimore, to understand how well known she is in this filthy mill village. She has little to do with Marion except to receive her dividend checks, on time. I am sorry for R. W. Baldwin, Miss Sally's cousin. Gives ‘Breaks’ to Strikers The manager and chief owner of the Clinchfield mills is Mabry Kart. I Whve spent hours with him. I like him very much. He is a big, bronzefaced. husky athlete, whose father and grandfather before him were mill owners, and who would prefer to have less dividends and more peace. The third mill owner in Marion is William Neal, who seems to be quite as much on the side of the strikers as he is on the side of his fellow mill owners. We have, then, out of the three mill owners in Marion—Miss Sally and Mabry Hart and William Neal—at least two of whom are not unwilling to have conditions changed. I do not think that they will disagree with the theory that every worker in America has, according to our present standards and according to our protestations of unprecedented prosperity, the right to a flivver, a radio, and a house which will keep the wind out on a cold night. But when we get Mr. Hart and Mr. Neal thus agreeing, what have we? We have precisely nothing. For behind all these individual manufacturers there is the powerful Southern Textile Manufacturers’ Association. They resent “scabs” as bitterly as do the strikers. They have their mills in the south because of that famous supply of “cheap and satisfied labor,” and they do not desire to have any of their members becoming expensive and unsatisfied by dealing with the union. Many Things to Do If Mr. Hart or Mr. Neal were to deal with the union—if, by the most poetic imagining, Miss Sally were to do so—there are a number of things that the southern textile manufacturers could do. They could halt the entire sales of such manufacturers. They quickly could inform the middlemen to have nothing to do with these mills. There is another element, less organized than the textile manufacturers and. therefore, less picturesque, quite as important in controlling the decisions of the manufacturers. This is, in Marion and every other mill town, the local body of respectable citizens. They do not wish any labor trouble. They do wish the northern manufacturers to bring their plants to the south. They do wish to sell their lots, to find new patients for tooth extraction and appendectomies. It was a mob of men like this, professional men and policemen, who kidnaped the labor organizers

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at Elizabethton, Tenn., only about 125 miles from Marion, put them across the border and told them not to return. It is a mob like this that will have something to say to Mr. Hart and Mr. Neal if they recognize the union. Before I leave the owners, I want to deal with one aspect of this whole southern mill problem which is not too well known. That is the supposition that, in some curious way, all mill owners are southern gentlemen, while most, or all, of the discontented workers are Bolsheciks or some other kind of discontented foreigners. The fact is that a very large percentage cf the ownership of the southern textile mills is northern. Miss Sally, living in Baltimore, is not a particularly good example. But a rather perfect example is that of the Manville -Jenckes Company, which owns the mills in Gastonia and whose headquarters are in Pawtucket, R. I. And as for the strikers, the quaint thing is that they really are 100 per cent southern and American—except for the "foreign” agitators, whose “foreignness” is indicated readily by such names as Peel, Gorman, Hogan, Ellis and Ross. 1 want to switch quickly now—it is such a quick switch on the typewriter, but so distant in social values—from the owners to the strikers. There is a strike headquarters. It is only a few feet behind the mill, on a plot which by some mischance does not belong to the company. It is the basement of a little store to which the workers have very curiously, been going instead of to the company’s store. Under this store the strikers have made for their headquarters a room

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perhaps three times the size of an ordinary New York hall bedroom. This is the only place in which they can meet, except for the little sloping plot of ground which is their regular site for mass meetings. On this little plot there are eight new sawbucks. It was on these sawbucks that the coflins of the four men killed in the sheriff’s defense of Americanization rested before they were taken away to a place where there is no argument about the best method of running southern textile mills. Yet they are stubborn and unreasonable, these strikers. At the “dug-out,” as they call their headquarters, I met a widow’ of 60. Her clothes, I should judge from the glass buttons, were made in 1870. They may have belonged to her mother. But, naturally, she put on this, her best costume, when she went to the “dug-out.” I was introduced to her as she was going home with a sack of flour, from the strike relief, over her shoulder. I was told that she had no one to support her, because her older boys had gone away and were having enough difficulty taking care of themselves. She had worked in the mill for many years. “But now,” said she, “I never can work there again. I can’t go across the blood of our murdered boys at the mill gate. I don’t know what is going to happen, but I reckon that it’s time for the Lord to take care of me.” * That was an old woman, in old-

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