Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1938 — Page 15

THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1093

~~ SOUTH CAROLINA TEXTILE UNIONS SHOW STRENGTH

Victorie: in NLRB Elections Spur Drive; Governor Is Sympathetic.

By TIIOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer ? COLUMEIA, S. C, March 31.— Labor is -n the march in South - Carolina, 'ong-time center of the southern textile industry. : The campaign of the T. W. O. C. (Textile Workers Organizing Committee), a C. I. O. unit, has met with more success here than elsewhere, and is still moving forward despite the business setback which has forced some mills into part-time operation. : Contributing factors are the syms pathy of Covernor Johnston, who worked for several years in a textile plant and vho has put through his Legislature = 40-hour-week law for the textile industry, the only one in the count:rv; a more lenient community attitude than elsewhere, so that organizers and workers are able to hire meeting halls and have found the radio accessible; and preVious union c=xperience. Indicative of the changed official eititude is th= case of John D. Long, a member ¢° the South Carolina House, forme: secretary to ex-Sen-stor Blease. A year ago Mr. Long introduced a resolution to keep Joha L. Lewis out »¢ the State. This year he. introduce: a measure for aircooling in tex‘ile mills; he also supPoked the .ohnston 40-hour-week aw,

NLRE Elections Help

Workers wo fought through the 1935 strike«ir the Carolinas form a helpful nucles in the T. W. O. C. drive. They are the shock troops. Especially cncouraging to the T. W. O. C. leaders are two recent NLRB electiciis, one in the Pacific Mills here, which the union’ won by 1523 to 363, znd another in the CoJumibia Mills here, won by 471 to _. There have heen reverses, too, antl resistance from employers, but a visit to key spots-disclosced a determination among the workers, a new spirit ‘of independence which forecasts a larger measure of organization earlier than elsewhere in the South. I attended 2 rally at Newberry, S. C,, 40 miles from Columbia, preparatory to arr NLRB election to determine whether the T. W. O. C. shall be the bargaining agency for a local textile plant. Leading T. W. O. C. figures from the area concentrated there to talk to the workers—Roy Lawrence, aciing southeastern regional dierctor, from Atlanta; Ralph Simmerson, in charge of the Columbia district; ‘Witherspoon Ilodge, a former clergyman who is active in the T. W. O. C. campesign, and Elizabeth Hawes, of the Greenville district, who was the organizer in charge at the Newberry mill, and who arranged the meeting.

Audience Cheers

It took place in a school auditorium. Men ard women, young and old, and a number of children, sat for nearly thkree hours as the T. W. O. C. leaders spoke. “The labor movement is paved with determination,” shouted Dr. Dodge. “There's not a thing can stop it.” His audience cheered. “You are voting for yourselves in a Federally conducted election,” said the 29-year-old Simmerson, stressing the Federal Government's backing of collective bargaining.

Mr. Lawrence fold the assembled

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workers that they were “just as much entitled to some. of the good things of life as the boss ‘Who sits in his office behind a big mahogany desk smoking a 25-cent cigar.” He said that some of the companies just now probably are not making a profit and that the T. W. O.-C. has always taken the position that the textile manufacturers should make a reasonable profit. But it does insist, he said, that the profits should be shared with the workers.

He warned the workers against |i

over-confidence in the forthcoming election and against last-minute propaganda of mill owners. Such propaganda, he said, has in other cases taken the form of threats that a mill would be closed down and rumors that the management would know how each worker voted.

Some Elections Lost

. “The management,” he cried, “has not the slightest chance of knowing

how you vote—and I want you to |i

get that in your heads.”

The audience cheered when he 3

declared: “There will be no bosses at the polling places.” An election is the last stage of an organizing campaign. The T. W. O. C. has lost some of them. Pre-

‘liminary to the election is the or-

ganizers’ slow job of inducing the workers to join the union. . Weekly meetings of the unions are held, usually on Saturday night. They are addressed by their own members, by local organizers, by outside speakers, as they slowly go about the job of winning over enough of their colleagues to warrant a showdown. Such meetings are going on now through South Carolina’s mill towns.

NAZIS IN U. S. WON'T

VOTE IN PLEBISCITE +

WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.) —The German Embassy here has received instructions for the conduct of balloting among German citizens in the United States in the April 10 German-Austrian plebiscite, but because of legal techni-

calities it was predicted today that |

none of them could vate.

There are approximately 400,000 German citizens in this country and theoretically they are entitled to vote. American law, however, provides that they may not vote within the territorial ‘limits of the United States.

MANILA, P. I, March 31 (U. P)).

—Members of the small local Aus- |:

tro-German colony will participate in the April 10 anschluss plebiscite, the German consulate gnnounced today. A German steamer will he chartered for the balloting, which

will take place outside the three- |:

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