Mill Owners Split on Strike in Marion North Carolina
Sinclair Lewis reports from Marion where three mill owners, including R W Baldwin and Mabry Hart, hold differing views amid a labor strike that has left six dead and more than twenty wounded. The piece notes absentee ownership by Miss Sally Baldwin and the influence of the Southern Textile Manufacturers Association. Strikers organize in a basement store headquarters adjacent to the mill.
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Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
Marion
N. C
Lewis
Times
Scrippy-Howard News
Clinchfield Mills
Mabry Hart
William Neal
Miss Sally
America
Mr. Hart
Mr. Neal
Southern Textile Manufacturers’ Association
South
Hart
Elizabethton
Tenn
Neal
Sally
Baltimore
Manville-Jenckes Company
Gastonia
Pawtucket
R. I
Peel
Gorman
Hogan
Ellis
Ross
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H. A. Winrote
E. Cedar St
South Bend
Ind
Viana
Viyna
Viuna
Iceland Medicine Co
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Strikers Meet in Dug-Out as Old Women Endure Hard Times
The article portrays battle weary strikers meeting on a sloping plot with eight new sawbucks serving as coffins for four men killed defending Americanization. A 60 year old widow, wearing 1870s clothes, speaks of losing mill work and fear of the future while carrying flour relief. Dan Ellis, a local strike leader, is urged to leave Marion for his Bolshevik name amid tensions.
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Marion
N. C
Marion Manufacturing Company
Baldwin Mill
R. W. Baldwin
Bill Ross
New York Hall
America
New York
Dan Ellis
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