Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1939 — Page 8

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NLRB UNCOVERS Bell Which To Place

10 FIGHT UNIONS some Old Timers Believe

USE OF RELIGION

Southern Mills promoted

‘Revivals’ as Attack on | C. Il. 0., Report Says.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer | WASHINGTON, April 10. — How | some Southern mill owners capital-| ize religion and subsidize preachers t~ fight labor unions is graphically revealed by the National Labor Relations Board as the result of an investigation in South Carolina. The “religion” technique as em-| ployed not only in South Carolina, but in other Southern states was described during the inquiry, which] specifically involved three textile | mills near Gaffney, S. C by Wither- | spoon Dodge, D. D. | Dr. Dodge, a former Congregational minister of Atlanta, and a former member of the Oglethorpe University faculty, now is an organizer for the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, C. I. O. affiliate. “We have had this experience over and over in our organizing.” Dr. Witherspoon testified. “Just before we would start an intensive organization campaign. there would start a series of revival serviees in the mill churches.

“Diverts Workers’

“In one way that minds of the workers from the necessity of improving their own conditions through organizing, be-| cause the mill people are rather]

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In Market

It Was Placed There Century Ago. The old bell in the market place,

which for more than half a century tolled the curfew on marketing ac-

lled Curfew Missing

PRINTING PRESS DIES

NEW YORK, April 10 (U. P).— Henry A. Wise Wood, who invented the hign speed newspaper printing ress, died of pneumonia last night. e was 73. Mr. Wood invented the autoplate

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tivities at the day's end, will toll Na

It's gone. city Marketmaster Paul Lindemann and Archie Scanlon, chief engineer at the Market, discovered the loss today. Up they climbed into the Market tower, up they looked into the belfry. All they saw was a piece of sky through the eaves where pigeons come to roost. Even the pigeons were gone. . There Four Years Ago

No one really knows how old the

market bell was before it disap-

peared. Some say it's older than al

century. Others say it was put in| the tower when the market was) built, about 1885. Mr. Lindemann said he imagine what happened to the bell.” | “It was there when 1 came four vears ago.” he said. “What's happened to it since is a mystery to me. Do vou suppose someone could have stolen it?” ‘Old Timers’ Puzzled Mr. Scanlon was equally mystified and so were some of the “old timers’ around the market. 1t doesn’t matter, now. The deepthroated tones of the market bell have been replaced by the jangling of an electric bell system.

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The 13th annual National InterClub Contract Bridge championship tournaments will be held at the Indianapolis Athletic Club April 21-23, it. was announced today by William RE. McKenney, executive secretary of the American Contract Bridge

League. Mrs. C. L. Buschmann is chairman of the tournament committee and Russell J. Baldwin, League tourament director. will conduct the event. which is sponsored by the Athletic Club.

According to Mrs. Buschmann,

church-minded and somewhat re-| ligiotisly inclined, and so the effort| is to prevent them from attending mill organization meetings by going to church meetings. | “In another way, and a very much more direct way, these meetings are| punctuated and emphasized with virulent attacks on the C. I. O. The| psychology back of that is very] easy to understand. With the religious background in the minds of the workers, and with the respect that 1s paid to him by the mill workers, if he (the preacher) can come and hold a meeting and divert their minds from organizing activities and lambast the C. I. O., why it serves a double purpose of injuring and handicapping and perhaps forestalling the efforts of organizing. “We know that the mills contribute frequently to the salaries of the preachers in the churches, that they make contributions frequently to these evangelistic services. I don't the schedule of events is: April 21, want to make any false implications, women's pair at 1:45 p. m. and but the mill churches are subsidized mixed pair at 8 p. m.; April 22. open by the mills, and a man is con- pair at 2 and 8 p. m. April 23, sequently going to be influenced by open team at 11 a. m. and 5 p. m. his income.” | Considerable testimony relating to the activity of one preacher i» POLITICAL SCIENTIST { “prayer bands,” and the use of re-! TALKS HERE APRIL 17. ligion to check unionization in the | three textile mills near Gaffney—| ! the Alma, Limestone and Hamrick| Dr. Harold J. Laski, political Mills—was taken in the Labor Board scientist and author is to speak on inquiry conducted by trial examiner | The European Situation” at 8 p. m. C. W. Whittemore. April 17 at the Kirshbaum ComReinstatement Urged | munity Center. emen rge | Dr. Laski also will lecture during His report also charged other! April 11 to April 27 at Indiana Uniforms of alleged intimidation. in- versity, discussing his views on the cluding formation of company ‘American Presidency,” according to “clubs” to combat labor unions, Miss Mary B. Orvis, executive secstoppage of credit at company retary of the University extension stores, eviction from company,| division here. houses, and trumped-up arrests of! workers. Mr. Whittemore recommended the NLRB order the mills to stop dis-| couraging union membership, to] disband the “clubs” and to reinstate. with back pay. 22 workers who were allegedly discharged for aiding the Textile Workers Organizing Committee or refusing to join the com-panyv-dominated clubs “Preacher” Parker, a doffer at the Alma Mills, who is an ordained Primitive Baptist minister. is a leading character in the drama of the fight against unionism which is woven in thousands of words of testimony taken by Mr. Whittemore. Mr. Parker's own testimony and that of others shows how the minister talked to one of the owners of the Hamrick mills about preaching; how he was promised a lot for a church: how he borrowed $25 to pay an installment on his automobile about the time “clubs” were being organized under company auspices. “Preacher” Parker said the purpose of the Square Deal Club to which he belonged was to promote “the spirit of brotherly love” In answer to an inquiry, he said the workers were satisfied with conditions at the mill. “And you thought it was ungodly to try and improve these working conditions?” “Well,” he replied. “you will find in the beginning of the Bibie where it tells us to be satistied with our wages and be content with our wages.” He couldn't locate this Biblical injunction, but thought it was in Romans, which is in the New Testament.

Dr. Laski lias taught and lectured at McGill University, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, and Trinity College, Dublin.

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Times Photo. Save for an occasional pigeon, the City Market belfty now is empty. What happened to the bell that used to toll the hour of closing at the Market is a mystery. it was gone when Matrketmaster Paul Lindemann lcoked.

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