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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1936
Page
3
A compact look at the sit-down strike as a potent but potentially backfiring weapon in labor disputes. The tactic stalls production by having workers stay inside plants, with examples cited from France and the United States, including the Hercules Motor Corporation incident at Canton Ohio.
The piece traces sit-downs in 1936 from Akron rubber to WPA clashes in New York City, noting few violent episodes but rising risk of plant damage and wider labor disruption. It cites Bendix South Bend, Kelsey Hayes, and Goodyear as examples and flags dangers of unofficial leadership provoking protests.
Greensboro December 29 special report an application for a charter for the Guilford County Mutual Soil Conservation association has been filed with Clerk of Court A Wayland Cooke. The group plans a Greensboro headquarters and aims to educate farmers on erosion control with support from federal and state farm agencies. It has no capital stock and unlimited membership. The filing also notes the Koonts Cleaning Company charter with $100000 capital stock. Incorporators include A A Koonts and D E Koonts Nannie Jones Koonts of Greensboro. Russia has no aircraft carrier but a tender serving seaplanes.
The piece mocks grumbling about past troubles and calls for harnessing incoming energy to keep producing worthwhile work. It urges readers to spread sunshine, build a lively city with smiles, and offer upbeat letters to the Editor about personal pet peeves.
D F Black aged 82 died at his home on route two this morning after a year long illness. Survived by widow Ida Maner Black two sons John Black High Point route two Addison Black Madison New Jersey a daughter Mrs Gaither Reddick High Point route one one brother A F Black Norfolk Virginia funeral arrangements not yet complete.
In this weekly air mail service over the South Atlantic a French airline operates Sewa planes averaging 250 to 300 kilometers per hour.
The text notes that iron and steel chassis expand and contract causing over an eighth inch length difference for cars between hot summer and cold winter. It also states aviators use smoke screens and sky writing chemicals mainly titanium tetrachloride and white phosphorus.
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