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FEAR RULES IN TEXTILE MILLS. WRITERLEARNS Many Fired, Pay Slashed for Union Activity, Author Told. Laura Lou Brookman, staff writer for NEA Service, went to a southern textile town to got color and background for anew novel without any idea of uncovering a news story. But the following true account of her experiences presents such a clear picture of the rondiditions and feeling in an average mill community on the eve of the textile strike that it is printed here as a highly revealing article. This account is not intended to mirror conditions in all textile centers. BY LAURA I.OU BROOKMAN NEA Service Staff Writer I CLEVELAND. Aug. 31.—Spend six hours in a southern textile mill town trying to talk to mill workers in a friendly, impartial way about their problems and you may find—like I did—that your every move is being checked carefully. The names of the persons you have talked with will have reached the general manager of the mill. Perhaps, like myself, you will be accused of being a labor “organizer”—and therefore subject to suspicion. I made my visit because I wanted to write a newspaper novel about a girl worker in a textile mill. I wanted to see a mill town, find out how mill workers live, collect color and “background” for my story. Within six hours, mill agents were trailing me. Union Leader Fired In this town of 12.000 the one big company employs 1,600 men and women in its mill. The mill works three shifts of seven and. one-half hours each. There is a “mill village,” rows and rows of small wooden houses just outside the mill. These dwellings do not supply enough room for all the workers, though, and many of them live a mile away in the center of the town. There is a dormitory, owned by the company, housing about sixty girls. I needed a starting place, some way to bcome acquainted with these strangers. I had obtained the name of a man I understood was president of the textile workers’ union there. I found him in the town proper. “No,” he said. “I haven’t worked since the company found out we’d organized th union. Sure, I’ll take you around to talk to any one you want to talk to.” We went to the girls’ dormitory. “Can I arrange to spend the night here?” I asked the matron. She said she’d be glad to have me if I could get permission from the general manager of the mill.

“You’re in Bad Company” But I couldn’t spend a night in the dormitory, the general manager said. No one could be permitted to do that. Suddenly the general manager asked crisply, “Will you tell me why you’re running around with ?” (Naming the ex-gate keeper.) “I don’t know any one else here.” “Well, you’re in bad company!” Before I could reply, came the next question. “You’re sure you’re not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor?” “No.” The general manager agreed to show me through the mill. “Now.” he said as I left, “you may talk to the girls as much as you want to but it must be outside the mill.” I went back to the dormitory that night but I was not given an opportunity to talk to any of the girls. I went for a drive on the beautiful, moon-lit mountain roads. A car followed —the car of the man who had informed the general manager about my visit with the young man who had been discharged. Talks With Workers I talked to many mill workers—men and women—but after I discovered I was being followed and watched I did not talk to any more. Those mill workers have enough troubles without my making it any harder for them. What are they saying, what are they thinking about the threatened textile strike? Here are some answers: An old man—cheeks sunken, gray hair thinned to a fringe—shakes his head. “I ain’t never joined a union. I thought I’d just go my way. But of course, if there’s a strike, I’ll have to go with the rest.” An alert, bright-eyed young woman of 22, wearing a skimpy, cheap cotton dress, her nails brightly enameled, says, “We’re not afraid. There isn’t anything more they can do to us than they have done.” Her wages have been reduced from S2O a week to the government minimum, Sl3. She says it is because she is suspected of belonging to the union. Girls Are Afraid A young man who leans forward eagerly as he speaks. He’s been out of work for several months. “There was a meeting one night,” he said, “to organize a union. Seven men were there. The next day six of us were fired. Os course, we know the other was a stool pigeon. We’re doing things differently now; We have meetings but they are secret. The girls are more afraid than the men.” Yes, the girls are afraid. They are afraid of losing their jbs; afraid of being put on the dreaded 3 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. shift; afraid that when their two weeks’ pay envelope is received there will be deductions for taking six minutes instead of five in going to and from wash rooms, or for speaking to a fellow worker as much as once during working hours. They are afraid the girl who works next to them or whom they sit beside at lunch may be a company agent and will repeat or deliberately misquote what they say. Men are afraid, too. Especially men with families to support. They know what happened to one man who used to have a “white collar job” as a clerk in the mill office. Every one in the town knows about him. ‘Satisfied,’ Says Chief After working at the plant for five years he was reduced to the least skilled job in the mill and the lowest wage. Why? The man himslf says it was because of union activities. Then there’s the general manager. “Our people are perfectly satisfied,” he asserted. “The company’s attitude toward its employes is one of

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Laura Lou Brookman ... a novelist who found herself in a reporter’s shoes.

friendly co-operation. There is no dissatisfaction.” Perhaps there isn’t from the general manager's point of view. No dissatifaction? ... I didn’t talk to all of the 1.600 employees in that mill. Some of them may not be dissatisfied, may not be interested in the strike. But some of these who bend over machines all day very sure of it—have not forgotten Patrick Henry.

M'NUTT STARTS LEGBJRE TOUR Governor to Speak in Four States During Next Five Days. A speaking schedule which will take him north to Milwaukee, vest to Oklahoma and Arkansas and east to West Virginia was started today by Governor Paul V. McNutt. He left yesterday for Milwaukee, where he is scheduled to address the American Bar Association convention today. He will journey to Parkersburg, W. Va., Sunday, where he will speak before the state American Legion convention. The governor will use a plane to fill a speaking engagement at the Arkansas state Legion convention, at Eureka Springs, Sept. 3. The next day he will speak before a Legion convention in Oklahoma City. Heads Wisconsin Rally By United Press MILWAUKEE, Aug. 31.—Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, here for the American Bar Association convention, will be the principal speaker at a state-wide Democratic rally tonight, Democratic leaders said. Other speakers will include Governor A. G. Schmedeman of Wisconsin and Senator F. Ryan Duffy. BIBLE INSTITUTE HEAD TO SPEAK NEXT WEEK Dr. James M. Kaye to Appear Three Days Next Week. Dr. James M. Kaye, compiler of the New Analytical Bible and director of the Students’ Bible institute, will speak Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons at the Bible conference and evangelistic campaign which is being conducted every afternoon and evening by the Indianapolis Bible institute in the Cadle tabernacle. Dr. J. C. Massee, evangelist and former pastor of the Tremont Baptist Temple, Boston, will speak each night next week. Other speakers on the Bible Institute Conference program are Dr. E. M. Cobb, Dr. D. L. Andrew's, the j Rev. H. H. Drake, the Rev. H. E. I Eberhardt, Dr. B. E. Antrobus and i Dr. William McCarrell. LIFE SAVING LAURELS AT STAKE IN CONTEST City Championships Sought by Red Cross Swimmers. The annual city life-saving championship contest was to be held in the Rhodius park pool at 2 today, under auspices of the American Red Cross and the city recreation department. All contestants must be either senior or junior members of the Red Cross life saving corps. There will be junior and senior events in the various methods of rescue and retrieving for boys, girls, men and women.

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STATE FAIR TO OPEN ON DOT AT 9 TOMORROW Indiana's Greatest Show to Draw Thousands Over Week-End. (Continued From Page One) traveling with wide-open throttle; he will roll his car over and over; and. above all. he will present his famed triple ski-jump in an automobile. While performing this last exploit he has injured himself seriously no less than fifteen times. Judging to Go On Horses, cattle, sheep and swine, all will be judged in their many ramifications Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Vaudeville, concerts, polo, horse-shows and musical comedy will be there to regale the sporting and sophisticated. Nor will the scholar and business man lack attractions to engage their full attention. Fifty-one Indianapolis firms and many companies throughout the state will show their wares in the Manufacturers' building in the greatest state fair exhibit of all time. Special community exhibits displaying the wonders of the hometown will be offered by Terre Haute, Huntington. Marion, Hartford City and Lebanon. One automobile manufacturer is out to show his competitors a thing or two. He promises to have one of his sedans suspended from the ceiling by a cable attached to a single spoke. Those who care to may pass underneath. Dog Show lo Be Held Ford’s Louisvillians, a band composed of employes in the Kentucky Ford plant, will sooth minds distraught with the wonders of mechanical ingenuity every afternoon and night in the Manufacturers’ building. The annual dog show will be held, and in the same building will be offered the equally annual cat show. Here a possible feature is denied customers as fair officials categorically deny that representatives of the two exhibits will be permitted to mix freely. They will be there on different dates. The cat show', however, does promise to exhibit some felines so curious that limited space does not permit their description here. Old rivalrys will flair again. For the last tw T o years Indiana university has walked away with the board of agriculture trophy offered to the winner of a Purdue-I. U. alumni fair attendance contest. Three victories mean permanent possession, and the Boilermakers do not intend to let Indiana get that cup. The Purdue alumni will meet in giant mass meeting at 11 Wednesday in the Purdue building; but I. U. is not without her tricks and plans to put the trophy in the spot where she wishes she had the old oaken bucket. The Parade of Champions Wednesday will be “Education day.” Then spectators will have an opportunity to view the achievements of Hoosier schoolboys and girls. A parade of champions will be featured at 11 in the morning W'ith every indication that not less than 2,500 high school pupils will appear in the line of march of youngsters who have excelled in some particular line of endeavor. The parade will be led by a variety of bands including a mammoth group from Grant county which will include no less than 300 instrumentalists. Each and every champion will receive a certificate of award from Dean Henry L. Smith of I. U., newly-elected president of the National Education Association For fishermen, there will be fish from Indiana lakes and streams; and for hunters there will be game brought from state parks. The conservation department has spared no expease on this exhibit which will bring to many a sportsman dreams of “open seasons.” Advance ticket sales indicate alltime record crowds. There will be something for everyone at this year’s state fair.

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