The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Hosiery Mills Close
In the South Today
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the flying squadrons to "disperse
and not resume activity"
Flying Squadrons Continue
Meanwhile flying squadrons con-
tinued to operate around the
Greensboro and Burlington District
of North Carolina, despite the Or
ders. Squadrons were also active
around Shelby and Kings Mountain.
Reports in the local press of
wholesale openings of mills are
grossly exaggerated. 1t was re-
ported that several mills had
opened in Burlington, but the truth
of the matter is that all the fifty
mills in the city are closed as effee-
lively today as they were the first
day of the strike.
Eleven Strikers Jailed
Pickets nassed at the Burlington
Mills and only IL strike breakers
were able to get through the lines.
Following the picketing yesterday,
two additional companies of the
National Guard were dispatched to
the area. Eleven strikers were
arrested by the military and
charged with "forcible trespass."
In Graham, where it was reported
that the strikers had returned,
only a handful is working. The
mill owners in that town are at
tempting to make it appear that
the mills are running by having
a few Strike-breakers operate the
looms without warps. The noise of
the running looms did not attract
any of the strikers to report to
work when the whistle blew this
morning.
A mill in Belmont which opened
yesterday was stopped by a flying
squadron. Not a wheel is turning
in the plant.
Fickets at Cannon Mills
Piekets were on hand at the
Cannon Mills at Kannapolis yes
terday. This morning hundreds of
troops and guards with rifles we're
patrolling around the high wire
fences which surround this largest
towel-manufaeturing establishment
in America. The pickets came from
Mooresville and Salisbury, and
joined the Kannapolis workers in
front of the mills, despite the
threatened terror.
At High Point workers of the
Knitting Rooms of Meirose and the
Amos and Slane Hosiery Mills con-
tinued their strike.
At Danville, where the workers
voted for the strike over the head
of RoXie Dodson, local president of |
the U, T. w. A., meeting was held |
yesterday at which representatives
of the National Textile Workers
Union spoke and proposed that a |
united front be formed and that one
strike under the leadership of one
joint strike committee be carried on.
G. M. Fox, State chairman of the
North Carolina strike committee, de-
clared that he was for the unity of
the two unions, called for mass
picketing and promised to organize
flying squads to pull out additional
mills.
Fox Changes His Mind
After the meeting adjourned, how
ever, Fox changed his mind. He said
the question of unity would have to
be taken up with German. He or
dered only three pickets in front of
each mill. This morning when
pickets came to the Danville Mills,
Roxie Dodson made a tour of the
strike front in a car and told the
pickets to go away from the mill.
The Danville local had also voted
to send kilograms to other locals in
North Carolina asking them to sup
port the fight in that city by send
ing flying squadrons and pickets to
the mills. President Dodson stopped
the dispatching of these messages,
Paul Crouch, District Organizer of
the Communist Party, announced
today that a series Of mass meetings
to support the strike will be held
during the week under the auspices
of the Party in the North Carolina
textile region. Communist speakers
will address the strikers in Durham,
Charlotte and Chapel Hill.
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