The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-08-07
GREAT UNREST OF LABOR
SHOWS HAND HERE.
Some $50 Employees of Several Plants
" a,Avut Monday, Claiming That
Union MensWere Fired-Labor
Leaders Come Here and
Make Speeches.


Make Speeches.
The great unrest of labor through
onf the country has become local
and High Point today is facing the
SiInation of striking employees, some
thing that is hardly known here, in
fact being the second time IN the
history of the city.
Monday morning some $50 men
employed at local plants quit work.
claiming that union men were fired
and thus calling for recognition of
the union which was organized here
recently and which has received
new impetus lately through the ar
rival of several labor leaders
The idle are known to include fur
niture and glass workers employed
at the Tomlinson Chair company,
The Giant Furniture company, the
Mirror company, the Piedmont Hosi-
prv Mills, and other local plants.
Officials of the affected plants had
no statements to make in regard to
the alleged causes of dissatisfaction
on the part of the laborers, Monday.
A meeting of the Carpenters and
,Toiners Union was held Saturday
nieht at $50 o'clock in the hall over
kobertson's store on East Green
street. This meeting was addressed
bv Scott Kiser of Indiana. MIR.
Scott recently of. the coal miners
union, has joined the local union
and works in this city. r.
After the address the meeting was
closed for d business session and no
details were forthcoming.
Printed circulars were distributed
over the city advertising a union
speaking Monday evening at $50
o'clock. Marvin Rich, of Charlotte, /,
and J. H. Graham were the principal
speakers at this meeting.
AT his meeting d large crowd as
sembled and listened to the speeches
of local man and several outsiders.
The union men say that members
of their body were fired because they
had joined the union aud that1others
&tuft work end will =-o67tin%fe % do
50 olt of sympathy for their fellow
members.
LaDor has its problem to solve as
we'll is the manufacturer aud bUSl-
ness man-One is ESSENTIAL tothe other
and we trust each side will view
the matter in this light and conduct
the proceedings as far as humanely
possible in a spirit brosherly love.
tree from bitterness and strife and
that no one will try 20 array one
class against the other, because sach
a proposition inevitably leads to
rain Let no side be unwilling to
treat with !he another for indiffer-
ence gets no where. After all we
are pretty much the same cOnstitut-
ed-just human beings---or big grown
up boys-willing to do the right thib 6
IN the last analysis or at least most
OF US are.
UNIONISTS HAVE OPEN AIR
RALLY MONDAY NIGHT.
The second day of the strike here
Witnessed several more recruits to
the army of the unemployed. Mon
day light headed by a brass band
humOeT of union men marched to
the grove, corner Wise and Smith
streets ana there listened to speeches
by prominent members of their or,
ganIzauOns, after which cards were
passed aud several joined. A goodly
humber were On hand at the speak
ing. The manufacturers nor union
ISIS ale giving out much real news
Oh the situation, the process OF
saving wood and saying nothing
apparently is the slogan SO far.
Last night another open air meet
ing was held. addressed entirely by
local people, at the intersection OF
South Hamilton and Willis streets.
The remarks of the three speakers
were conservative and void of any
unNholesome thoughts,