The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-05
MUST QUIT THE UNION
So Say Owners of Factories
in Alamance.
Owing to The Strike at Haw River, Mil Men
Will No Longer Employ Operatives
Who Belong to the Union.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Especial to News and Observer.)
Burlington, n. c., Oct. 3.-The fol-
lowing notice was posted in the cotton
mills of Alamance county today:
NOTICE.
Whereas, Recent developments have
shown that this mill cannot be operated
with that harmony between the owners
and the operatives thereof that is essen
tial success. and to the interest of all
concerned, SO long as the operatives are
subject to interference by outside par
ties; this is 10 give
Notice. that on and after the 18th day
of October. 1900. this mill will not en-
ploy any operative who belongs to a Labor
Union, but will be run by Non Union labor
only.
All operatives who object to the above,
and will not withdraw from Labor Unions,
will please consider this as Notice, and
vacate any house and premises belonging
to us which they may now occupy, on or
before the 18th day of October, 1900.
This action grew out of strike in
one of the mills at Haw River The
report is that the operatives in one of
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the managers that a superintendent
they did not like should be removed.
The mill owners or managers regard
ed the superintendent as a fit and ef-
ficient man, did not regard the griev-
ances of the men against him suffi-
cient for his removal, and refused to
comply with the demand for his re-
moval. Thereupon the operatives
walked out, and the operatives in the
other mills followed suit, and three
mills at Haw River are closed.
Most of the cotton mill operatives
in Alamance county belong to the tex
tile union, and it is not known what
action will follow the posting of the
notices on the factory doors.
Nowhere in the whole country has
there been so little friction between
the mill owners, managers and opera
tives as in Alamance county. The
proprietors live adjacent to the mills
and have the welfale of their employees
at heart. and until this trouble the re-
lations between the officers and the
mill men at Haw River had been as
amicable and pleasant as could be He-
sired. The demand for the removal
OF Il SupeTlHt tcIluChU lS Regarded as not
sufficient cause for strike, and that
opinion is held generally here.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
The Durham Herald publishes these ad-
ditional particulars obtained from Bur-
lington:
"A girl weaver in one Of the mills was
walking about in her department, and the
overseer, seeing that she was not at her
work, approached and asked the reason,
when she told him that she had no fill
ing.
"On investigation, the foreman found
plenty of filling at her loom. He then
told her that she could go home, as he
did not need her services any longer She
complied with the order, and her depart
ure from the mill caused considerable stir
among the operatives, or at least those
who were members of the labor union.
''Soon after this the members of the
union met in called session and went to
the office of the mills and demanded that
the overseer above referred to be dis
char-eG.
THE mill owners would not comply with
the request, but instead shut down three
of the plants in that village.
1T is said that the shutting down of
these mills will throw out of work some
thing like one thousand or twelve hun
dred people"