The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-23
TIE STRIKERS WILL
LOSE THEIR FIGHT
The Strike Was UntimeIy
and Ill-Advised.
SIDE OF THE MILL MEN
They Declare That They Have Black.
listed Nobody.
SIDE OF THE MILL MEN
CONFIDENT OF THEIR ABILITY TO WIN
Labor Organizations Sure to Come in the South
as They Have Elsewhere and Mill Men
Cannot Crush Them Out if
Properly Managed.
Special to News and Observer i,

.>IeCldi " news ana ODSorVer1
l.5W River, n. c., Oct 19.-One does
not have to stay here long to learn
that there are two sides to the strike
question.
The strikers side / gave in nv dis
patch from here yesterday. Today has
been spent interviewing mill owners.
sapcrintendents and n%on-union oner,
tjtes. Also have talked with a num-
Der af men who We're once in the nm
ION hut who have drawn out and are
uoW at work in the mills. These have
given me the other side of the uues-
ton. i
The mill owners say they knew sew
eraI months @ that their operatives
were organizing, but that they offered
no objection and would never have in
tcriered had not unreasonable de-
mauds been made.
SuperintendentS and bosses now AT.
work in the mills declare that after
the formation of Il union it was diff
tcuIt to maintain discipline among the
operatives while at work and conse-
QueUtiy the production was reduced
and its cost increased. The strike
originated, they think, in a most
tiagrant violation of rules by a young
girl operative.
Those who have drawn out of the
union say they did so because they
were convinced that. under its present
management, no good could come from
of it-On1y annoyance to the mill
owners and trouble for the operatives.
Both n%on-union operatives and those
-LA hay-A ~ Nv, NY, fr~,, fl 80
tell Of threats and pressure brought to
bear upon them by union men to make
them quit their jobs and join the I'M
ION. Even while [ sat in the office of
the company a nan came to ask pro-
lection. saying that he feared bodily
harm from the strikers. Another man.
IUrWell Summerlin. who caIme here
from Danyllle to take q place in the
Granite Mills, is sleeping in the mill
and his meals are carried to him, be-
cause he fears to go upon the streets
at night. He was met on his arrival
here, he says. and threatened by a
number of the strikers. Today when
new man. named NOEL, arrived from
Gibsonville. two armed deputies were
at the depot to meet him.
GUARDED BY ARMED MEN.
In every mill hat | visited [ found
Winchester rifles put there to protect
operative and property. and at night
the mills are guarded by armed men.
We do not look for any attempt at
Violence" Superintendent VIM. J.
Thompson. of the Thomas NJ. Holt
Mill said. but there have been so
many threats that we think it well, as
a precaution, to be prepared
The strikers. on the other hand, deny
that they are making threats. They
admit that they have approached Sum
merlin and others now at work and
tried TO pursuade them to join the IN
ION. Failing in that. they have argued
othem that they ought not to take the
place of a striker, and that this has
been construed as a threat. They add,
these strikers do, that every member
OF the union has taken a solemn obi
cation not to drink a drop of whiskey
as long as this trouble lasts and to
refrain from violence Or threats OF
Violence against persons and prop
crty."
I'm spite of this denial. however. a
number Of n%on-union operatives told
Tue that they had been threatened. and
others had heard of threats to whip
Them. alleged to have been made by
union men. One of the operatives at
'ar ihoS. VI. Holt Mill said the worst