Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-09 | Page 7 | Washington

South South's Mill Wo Workers k l Still Active I j 1 New U Unions Formed i Wage Fights On x By RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V NEA NEA Thc hasn't been heard o of the labor aI 1 lib libation in the southern textile mill Although there thero have hav been bees no rio nen new strikes and no shootings g of of mili workers for many months organized organ labor has been burrowIng that unorganized d territory and l i January has baa established forty n new new w local unions of or tho the United u Tex Workers Yorkers of or America f Thero Thera aro are aro about workers In the tho south louth and md present task Is to get them iti Inh unions and to tomake make their el employer and the other oIlier people of oC the so Llo south t recognize their theil right tl to according to Mrs Raymond Robin Robi the social economist who Is la president preal dent of or th National Women's Trail Tadi Union l league l. l uc The Tho league has s been devoUr most of ot Its attention to tho tIm since it decided t two o years at ag ago U tel move its Us headquarters from to In order to bo man mort closely In touch with Ith tho the situation At the annual meeting of or its executive tivo tive board here hero recently little eli I Iwas was is-as considered than its Us work In which it is with the United Textile Worker and tho the American Federation 6 01 l L. r. r NEED ORGANIZATION ij Wages in those mills arc are far tar tot to low ow and hours are much too long MI Mrs Mis Robins explained but proper organization is requisite before we w. can undertake to put the so ther textile workers oi on an equal bash basli with labor Jabor elsewhere in the country Mill owners refusing to nizo the tho right of workers to belon to a n. union are discharging those who engage o in any union activity In Danville Va Ya workers who havi hay been employed as long as forts ears years have o been thrown out out-of their theli lobs jobs for nl no other reason In Greensboro Greensboro Greensboro Greens Greens- boro thirty-eight thirty families were were put pui putout out of or their houses and into the thi streets J There Is thus far tar no textile elt city In the south where the union Ii Is formally recognized by the employers employ ers and where whelo workers yorkers cannot bl bi b. discharged for tor union membership We HWe are making every effort to tc conciliate disputes and to ln recognition by persuasion Strikes Strike will vilI not be bo called unless it has been definitely proved pro that there thero is ts s no no other n way U But whenever a A. strike does become necessary labor Jn- Jn tends to win It ft Any future strikes striker will be bo scientifically organized with relief relic work well planned in advance and ind with tho the support of organized abor throughout the country country- t Wo ha have hac c a tremendous j job Jr be beCore be tore ore us but I It is s worth the effo effort because we wo aro are trying tr ing to ral raise ralso standard of oC living for tor the mo most lU ex- ex group in America WORKERS DISILLUSIONED 3 Mrs Robins has had considerable association with the southern moun ain folk tolk from whom most of the thi workers have havo been dr drawn wn into the mills of ot Tennessee Georgia th the Carolinas and Virginia They left leCt their heir mountain homes thinking that U HO 0 a week was all the money moncy in Inthe inthe the he world she sho says sas failing falling to to anticipate an- an the c expense of or life in comparative com com- civilized communities After Artel learn learning learning- In the tho cost of ot living they hey were Introduced to tho the speed ip up and stretch-out stretch A systems