The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-16
NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR
REFUSES TO ORDER OUT MORE
TROOPS IN TEXTILE TROUBLE
Mill Officials Asked That More
Guards Be Sent to the Mills
By the State.
STRIKERS ARE READY
FOR A SETTLEMENT
President OF the North Carolina
Federation of Labor Asks
Governor to Come.
az The Assoelated Preas.l

| CONCORD, n. c. Aug. 15-'Uni6n Of
ficials here are anxious to make a set
| tlement with employers and end the
strike James f. Barrett president OF
the North Carolina Federation OF Labor.
told Governor Morrison at Asheville to-
day in a telegram urgirE the governor TO
come here Immediately.
Mr.. Barretts telegram was dispatched
soon sitter his arrival from Ashevile.
Employers have pursued a policy that
makes it impossible for me to see them.
am asking you in the name OF North
Carolina to come Immediately and urge
employers to meet their employees in ne
gotiation acceptable contract. Your COM
ing here would remove an already fixed
idea that the state is being used by eTl-
ployers not for promotion OF peace but
rather for the purely selfish purpose of
destroying the labor organization. Many
good citizens here believe troops unnec-
essary and only add fuel to flame. Your
early action viii be Of untold benefit TO
the state"
Mr.. Barrett's action followed long
distance telephone conversation between
A. c. Cannon, official Of the big Cannon
mill at kannaUolis. near here. and Gov
arnor Morrison at Asheville, Ia which the
governor way requested TO order third
company OF troops sent TO Kannapols by
Tuesday moFning. when it was proposed
10 reopen the Cannon mlli. eosed since
June l. governor Morrison replied thar
he would NOT order out a third coapany
until he Md conferred sgita .AdjEtant-
General j gaa b 8tgiis.
With thst Con0orn and Charlotte rssn-
tary comD;Anies on guard duty from early
morning. nd serious disorder attenl..d ths
continued operation of the Locke ran,
which re7umed work Thursday. or the
re-openi1S OF the Hartseil mill which Lad
heen closed down since the general tex
tile strike in this section occurred June
/. announcement was riade Lt'e tncay
that the BranfGrd mill. closed since June
!. would reopen tomorrow.
Major Ralph r. Faison, OF Greensboro,
arrived at o'clock this morning and as
sumed general charge Of Inc sit lat3en.
first reporting tc Sheriff G. L. Spears
and advising him that the military forces
We're at the sheriffs disposal.
Major Faison said the sheriff replied
that he had washed his hands Of tho
whole affair but that his automooile
would be placed at the disposal ~ the
military officer.
Major Faison this afternoon called upon
Captain Ben Gray Of the Wiust salem
military company to have his command
AZ ANfAbltANSS ~ iDtlltS 10 NHHNAtyilr 0L
any hour. and explained that be was cen
fident Adjutant General a1etts would r.
der the company to proceed aRer the gov
ernor had conferred with the adj:tsnt
general who was reported on his way
here from Camp Glenn AMI expScccd TO
arrive here late tonight.
One man was arrested early today fer
persistently crossing the dead line cstab-
lshed at the Locke mill By the coacoTn,
troops, and probably half dozen eggs
were hurled at Victor A. Means Official
of the Hartsen mill about The time OF the
opening today at / o'clock.
Probably 500 or more men and women
gathered at the Hartsell mill just before
the opening this afternoon but there was
Continued on Page Two.)