THE COTTON MILLS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 7

THE COTTON MILLS

CAROLINA STRIKES

A LAND OF DISORDER

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

«AX KRAXCISCO, 13th Xov

The simple folk of the Carolina hills, ivliose pure English stock runs back for -'00 years, are leaping a sad harvest of bl.iiul justice in the cotton mill disputes. -Murder and rapine have, gone unpun> isioil in a foui-corner.ed contest be•7 nulls Commimisls, unionists, ana ofCh an CW ? ears ago- the mountain, tfrirt Carolina and Tennessee she" orv PCT P h le Wh° hf never see]l » *w. li/hV ;? £ y * "c descendant S of Engare purely Anglo-Saxon. In these S anthologists from E ng ) and haye Se fo^ shl a r' P fl rait ed Tier nto 4rn thheCP a"d th° Wo^ , !l." ' the women niakinz ti\«

ADVENT or THE MTLLa

Then came tho unioas. Many of tii« gust and anger. AVhen th« a~ • Federate ol Labi'^.ft veTS jy came under the same ban as +».« S5hKSr&4.

I A SORRY PICTURE '- country. Ne ws filters futside cnmes m mill towns. There are £ gamsers were kidnapped. Hoggins and assault stopped just P s hort of Sex fnfl i T ment thevolume of death an^ oss has subdued the,whole com-

Employers are supported by the sheriffs and the militia and hur'reds of non-union workers. Union men and women have aligned themselves with the professional organisers. The citizen group opposes union organisers and Communists. The Federation of labour has summoned its executive to Washington to deal with.the Communists Their belated action will, it is hoped, open the way to conference. The circumstances of the conflicts are sucfi however, that it is feared many clashes will take place before peace is consummated. -