The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-11
GO OUT AGAIN.
The Operatives 90 to wolk but
Did NoE Stay
IN THE ccLUMslA MILLS.
The Ooara'iyss Claim that the
Mill Owners 5rcke Faith
snd Did Noa Kaep Thsir
Promise.

1t vas thought and hoped thst the
Columbia mill strike was settled last
week. In compliance with action Of
the Textile Union Mondsy night, that
operatives should return to their work
and that they were not to be asked
whether they continued their allegiance
to the union, practically all Of the mem
bers returned to work Tuesday morning.
The mill folks say that they told
the operatives that if they came
back to work because Of order Of the
union, and not Of their own volition,
as independent operatives, willing to
abide by the rules Of the mills, they
were no longer wanted and that they
could 90 out. The management i'm
pressed upon the operatives, so they
ssy, that operatives would be welcomed
and gladly received if they agreed to
follow the rules and regulations Of the
mills and not those Of the unions.
It is stated that sfter this presents
tion was made the operatives who had
been out on strike, practically, in
body, retired, which left the situstion
just as it stood on any day Of last week.
On the other hand, the operatives who
went back to work stated that they
agreed to return to work Wednesday
morning with the understanding that
no questions were to ba asked them as
to the authority by which they return
ed and thst they were not to be asked
whether they abjureo the union or not.
When they returned to work, they
say they were asked if they had de-
cided to withdraw from the union, and
that they replied that they had not and
that they were then told by 'sSec-
onds" that they could not work in the
mills and that the Seconds" an over
seers tried to persuade the operatives
that 1t would be to their interest to re-
main N the mill and that they would
be glad to have them remain, but that
their orders were that they could not
receive thsm except upon the condition
named. The further statement is nads
that the o7erseers, not being perfectly
satisfied with the status, went to see
the general superintendent. and that he
told the oVer5eers that If men were re-
cei7ed in the mill that it must be with
the distinct understanding that they
should not follow the union, Dut rules
and regulations Of the mill, and that
he had no right to receive any one who
would not agree to these terms Of the
mills IS against those Of the union
practically that the union must be
ignored. With this statement these
who went out several days ago remain
Cd out and the status continues just
about the same as it vas last week when
the strike was On in full blast.
Officials Of the Whaley mills all In
sist that they have not changed q par
tiole in their position and that any
statement to the effect that any change
Of front has bsen made is entirely in
correct, and that they will now, as
they have always stated, receive any
Of the operatives who went out, back
on condition that they abide By the
rules Of thu mills as against those Of
any one else, and that they have moth.
ing 10 do with the factory operatives
belonging to the unions, or any other
organizations. except that discipline Of
their mills required that the frat obliga-
tion to be the mills and that no oRe
can return to work in the mills except
as an Independent operative and not
because any union has directed thst he
shall return to work.