Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-08-02
ROCK HILL STRIKE
Textile Workers at Highland Park
and Cafhaftt No. 2 Are still Out.
BOTH Sides Are STANDING PAT

Agree to Nothing Except Destrue-
tion of ths Union-Claim Unionisn,
in Rock Hill to Stay and That They
are Goina to Stick-l1terest in
Charlotte Situation.
(By Staff Correspondeit.)
Rock Hill, July 30-Operatives of the
Highland Park mill in Rock Hill
didn't accept the invitation Of the mill
management extended them to go
back to work last Monday. There is
no telling when the strike situation
here will be settled and while there Is
little doubt but that both he man
agement and the workers would like
to get trouble settled and the wheels
to turning again, it is eviden: just now
that both sides are determined to jazz
along for q while at least.
According to the strikers the man.
agement wanted them to surrender all
their rights rs union workers in order
to get back rheir job. They say that
the management wanted to break the
back Of the textile union and the un-
ion people of course don't want their
back broken.
The Conditions
According to a reliable union man
here the management proposed for the
strikers to go back on the old wage
scale provided:
l. That Amos Hellman, president
of the local union; +. Gettys, treasur-
er and Carl Robinson textile union
committeeman, be kicked out of an Of
fee and out Of n job.
.. That the operatives agree TO
hereafter deal with the management
as individuals and not as committee
men and that the principal of collec-
tive bargaining be henceforth and
forever barred at the Highland Park.
Now, according to the Textile work.
crs, that would be n surrender OF
rverything they have. been working
or and would mean death of Textile
unionism in Rock Hill.
Their officers have led The fight
for them, they say, and they are GER
tainly not going back on their leaders
They have q right to select their
committeeman or representatives, they
say to hold up their end against the
management and they are therefore
going TO sit steady in the beat.
And the management is rs deter
mined Is they are.
"Now that is the situation the
textile worker who supplied the in
formation went on to say please
don't mention my name. 1t would
cause me all kinds of trouble.
You don't believe it would, eh?
Well let me tell you something: Some
time ago / was employed at another
mill in Rock Hill. The management
wanted us to go in for group insur-
ance.
I'VE were approached separately
and when they came to me / asked If
it would mean loss of job if we
didn't take it.
81 was told most empEatically not
"Then / asked for few days time
to study the matter and after careful
consideration / informed my superior
that | had decided not to go into it.
And Just a few days after that
was given my time"
Interest In Charlotte Strike.
Textile workers in Rock Hill are
keenly interested in the strike of tex
tile workers in North Carolina. Num-
bers of them go to Charlotte on Sun
days to spend the day with their
friends and fellow workers on strike
there and in order to get lire n.the
situation.
They say that there is abso utely no
truth in the stories being printed in
the Charlotte newspapers to the ef-
feet that the strikers are hungry and
il-provided for and that their condition
is desperate one. They claim that
the strikers have plenty to eat and
clothes to wear and that they are de-
termined to fight it out.
Rock Hill union people are helping
Charlotte union people through collec-
tions taken for their benefit they are
also carrying them vegetables from
their gardens here and are doing what
they can to encourage them by their
conversation.
Two Mills Closed.
The textile situation here is not
healthy by great deal. Carhartt
! Mill No =, ut Carhartt station, near
here. has not turned a wheel i'll months
land months. There is no indication
that work will be resumed any time
soon. The Highland Park operatives
have been out several weeks now. The
latter mill employs about 200 opera =
lives and local merchants and other
! commercial houses are feeling pretty
kecnly the tie up.
Rock Hill used to draw pretty big
trade from Carhartt No. ., and thai
trade is also being missed.
Union people say that they regret
very much the fact that 3 strike
should have come in Rock Hill at this
! al nIlut there was