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MARION PROGRESS A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF MARION AND McDOWELL COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1896 MARION, N. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929 VOL. XXXIV—NO. 7 CUNCHHELD MILL REOPENED TUESDAY Agreement ' Is Reached Be tween Strikers and Officials of Plant—Troops Not Used. The situation at the plant of the Clinchfield Manufacturing Company, which had been tense for several weeks, reached a climax early last Monday morning, when the strikers, who had been picketing the mills since immediately after declaring a strike Sunday afternoon, refused to allow non-union workers to enter the gates and reopen the mills at 5:15 o’ clock Monday morning. The mills had been closed for three weeks and between 200 and 300 workers were ready to go to work Monday, but were prevented by 600 strikers, who refused to allow the workers and of ficials to enter the gates. The strik ers did not use any weapons in their attempt to prevent the workers en tering the gates and nobody was hurt. Immediately following the en counter, Judge N. A. Townsend, Governor Gardner’s executive coun sel, who had been here for several days, conferring with business men of the town and officials of the mills and others in an attempt to adjust the trouble, addressed the strikers and requested them to quietly dis perse and stated to them that unless they did that it would be necessary to bring troops here to preserve or der and prevent further trouble. Alfred Hoffman, organizer for the United Textile Workers Union, and who has been actively in charge of the strike here, told the strikers that they must make up their minds at once what they were going to do. They refused to disperse. Troops from Asheville and Morganton were immediately called to Marion by Judge Townsend and one hundred and ten men answered the call, and closed for about a month. The de mands made by the employees of both companies are practically the same. Briefly they are: Recognition of the union; shorter working hours and adjustment of wages to the shorter day, and reinstatement of discharged union workers. The strike leaders claim that officials of the mills have refused to consider their demands or even read written state ments of their grievances. It is stat ed that the mill officials have declar ed that they are willing to take back all workers except about 150 who were discharged it is alleged for membership in the textile union. It is also stated that there will be no change in the number of hours of employment, regardless of the de mands of strikers for a ten hour working day and pay for the ten- hour day equal to pay received for the longer hours under the 12-hour system Officials of the Clinchfield mill stated Wednesday that approximate ly 600 employees are at work in the mill and practically all departments of the mill are being operated. Judge Townsend, executive coun sel to Governor Gardner, has not in dicated his intention of withdrawing the troops from Marion, and it reported that Judge Townsend will remain here, to do what he can to bring about a satisfactory settlement between the mill officials and the strike leaders. While Ihe nature of IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL GROUNDS At Last Neglected Grounds Are Given Attention—The Work Begun Monday. MARION SCHOOLS TO OPEN AUG. 30 Pupils Assemble Friday For Registration—^Tuesday The First Regular School Day. Tuesday morning four teams with dirt pans, plows ^nd scoops quietly began work on the Marion school grounds. Also four large trucks be gan hauling cement and sand for making cement walks and steps as needed on the grounds. The grounds will be completely and properly graded, all terraces sodded, grass planted, and shrubbery on a large scale put in before the beautification campaign is complete. Asked who was responsible for the beginning of this work, the superin tendent replied: “The Women’s club, the Parent-Teachers Association, the school board, the Mayor, the city board of aldermen, and above all. the crying need.” It is expected that the state school contest for beauti fication will be entered and the $100 prize for improvement be won. CHILD FATALLY BURNED Morganton, Aug. 17.—Phyllis, the three and a half year old daughter the negotiations have fiot been made j of Mrs. J. A. Palmer, of known, it is stated that plans look ing to a settlement of some kind are under way. Strike leaders deny that any con cessions have been made to the mill officials, but that any concessions made was to the State. They assert their claims remain unchanged. The strikers continue their picketing around the mills. Mill officials said Wednesday that the report that an agreement had been made not to employ outside la bor was an . error; that no such j agreement had been made. The mills have steadfastly refused to recog nize the union or demands made by came to Marion early in the day on local union, accord Monday. The troops were quartered statements of strike leaders at the court house, where they have remained during the week. This is considered a wise precaution on the part of Judge Townsend, in keeping the soldiers in Marion, rather than liave them camped on mill property and nearer the scene of the trouble. The guardsmen are members of Troop K, Cavalry, of Asheville, and Company B, 105 Engineers, of Mor ganton. The soldiers have quietly remained about the court house and lawn most of the time and have been the objects of interested curiosity of the people of the town and county. Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock nearly 400 non-union workers enter ed the gates at Clinchfield No. 2, and began work. This action was said to be in accordance with an agreement reached between strike leaders and mill officials during the early part of Monday. It is understood that the -agreement was to the effect that all former employes of the mills who desired to return to work should be allowed to do so and that the mill officials would employ no outside workers or textile workers from oth er mills. The hope has been ej^press- ed, that in view of the fact that such an agreement has been reached,, that further concessions by both sides may be made and the entire trouble settled. The business men of the town are ^ving credit to Judge Townsend for the satisfactory turn matters have taken. The opinion is generally held that the presence of troops here was a strong factor in causing the strik ers to agree that non-union workers be allowed to enter the mills and go to work. Alfred Hoffman, “ho has been ac tive in directing the strike, has stat ed that the agreement does not alter the situation in regard to the mill op eratives who are on strike, as none of their demands have been changed. It is reported that negotiations for the settlement of the questions at issue between the employees and mill officials will be inaugurated through leaders and a series of con ferences are to be held. The workers of the local union who are working toward a settlement are Tliawrence Hogan and Herman Loudermilk, in whom the strikers have expressed great confidence. There are about 150 out of 900 employees of thf Clinchfield Manu facturing Company on strike and about 650 of the 800 employees of the Marion Manufacturing Company are striking. That mill has been The situation remains quiet. The result of further negotiations re mains to be seen. PLANS FOR MEDIATION RESULT OF CONFERENCE Shelby, Aug. 21. — Governor 0. Max Gardner at a conference to night with N. A. Townsend, his ex ecutive counsellor, Will Neal and J. W. Winbome, Marion manufactur ers, made plans for an attempt at mediation of the strikes in Clinchfield mills and the Morganton, died at Grace Hospital here Saturday from burns received Friday when her clothing caught fire while she was playing with matches. Lights and fires seemed to have an unusual fascination for the child who had talked the day before of making a “bright light.” While the mother was otherwise occupied, she slipped into the kitchen and got a box of matches. Before her blazing clothing could be removed or the fire extinguished, she was terribly burned. The funeral was held at the home Saturday afternoon and interment was made in the Morganotn ceme tery. Dr. and Mrs. Palmer moved to Morganton from Maripn about year ago. They have one other child. Dr. Palmer is an optometrist and practices in several towns in this section. PLAN RE-ORGANIZATION OF P. T. ASSOCIATION chon. Commercial: Business English, Drew; Exercises in Business English; New Dictation Course, Reigner; Shorthand Mantial, New Revised Edition; Secretarial Studies, Sorelle & Gregg; Word and Sentence Drill, Mackett; Elements of Commercial Law, Cole; Twentieth Century Bookkeeping; Practice Set for Book keeping. Last Thursday afternoon, about fifteen women, mostly former offi cers of the Parent-Teachers Associa- the ition of Marion, met Superintendent Marion Ricliardson in the school auditorium manufacturing company, at Marion. Governor Gardner asked Judge Townsend to present the plan to strike leaders and the mill execu tives tomorrow morning. Each side would be asked to appoint three members to meet with Judge Town send and seek to reach an agree ment whereby the strikes might be ended. J. L. WEBB TO RETIRE FROM COURT BENCH Shelby, Aug. 15.— Democrats in the sixteenth North Carolina judici al district Thursday faced the prob lem of naming a candidate to suc ceed Judge James L. Webb on the Superior court bench, following his announcement Wednesday that he will retine at the end of his present term of office, in 1930. Judge Webb, who makes his home here, is the dean of North Carolina Superior court judges. He will have served a quarter of a century when he retires. He was appointed by Governor Aycock 24 years ago, and in no election since then has he been opposed for the Democratic nomina tion. Judge Webb is the father-in- law of Governor O. Max Gardner. The sixteenth district comprises the counties of Cleveland, Caldwell, Catawba, Burke and Lincoln. to discuss plans for reorganization. The meeting was quite informal, but quite a bit of enthusiasm was shown for reorganization on an active basis. Committees were appointed to work up interest at the first general meeting Monday, September 9th. It was decided to recommend to the Parent-Teachers Asociation that spe cific objectives for the year should be: (1) Beautification of the school grounds; (2) A Thrift Program in the schools; (3) A well rounded health programme inaugurated. J. D. GARDNER DIES AT HOME AT EAST MARION MRS. SALLIE CANNON DEAD Mrs. Sallie J. Cannon, aged 70, who has been ill for some time, died at her home in East Marion last Fri day. She is Survived by two sons, John and Alex. The funeral service was conducted from the home Sat urday afternoon by Rev. J. N. Wise and interment made in Oak Grove cemetery. “FOUR SONS” is highly praised as a very, very fine picture, and well worth seeing. It will be at Marion ^eatre next Wednesday, and at the Oasis Theatre on Thursday. Mr. J. D. Gardner, who has been ill for several months, died at his home at East Marion last Friday night. Mr. Gardner was 38 years of age and is survived by his wife and four children, Mrs. J. A. Schmidt of Mount Holly, Jessie, Louise and Eli jah Gardner, of Marion. Mr. Gard ner was a faithful member of the Methodist Church of East Marion. The funeral services were conduc ted from the East Marion Methodist Church Sunday morning at ten o’ clock by Rev. J. N. Wise, assisted by Rev. Dale, and interment made in Gaffney, S. C. BISHOP EDWIN MOUZON IN MARION DISTRICT SUNDAY Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon will at tend dedicatory services beginning at Spruce Pine at ten o’clock next Sunday, and Glen Alpine at three o’clock. He will also be with the people at Nebo Sunday evening at eight o’clock. On Monday morning he will preside at a meeting of all the Methodist pastors in the district at the First Church in Marion. Bishop Mouzon is suffering with throat trouble and will not be able to preach. Dr. H. B. Trimble, of First Church, Asheville, will do the preaching. The Marion Public Schools will open for the 1929-1930 session on Friday morning, August 30th. At this time the organization of class room work, registration of all high school pupils and other matters con tingent upon opening a new year will be taken care of. For the infor mation of parents and children a few explanations are here given. At 8:45 on Friday, August 30th, all pupils will assemble in the audi torium and sit at appointed places. Upon completion of directions, each grade will then assemble in its re spective room. There will be no elab orate opening programme. However, all parents who wish will be wel comed at this time. Pupils above the first grade who are entering the Marion system for the first time will be taken care of both at 9 o’clock and at 2 in the af ternoon. It is imperative that all pupils be present the first day, especially the high school students. The school day will begin this year at 8:45 and end at 3:17 for the high school. The first and second grades will be dismissed at 12:45 and the other grades at 2:15, 2:30 and 3:00. The practice of having double pe riods in the high school will be dis continued, and one special period each day for student activities will be observed. Daily work in high school chorus or glee slub work will be emphasized with the possibility of credit being given those who partici pate in this work. Regfular class room work will not be resumed, after Friday’s opening, until Tuesday, September 3rd, the object being to be prepared for ef fective work with the first regular school day. Again it is urged that all pupils report Friday morning at 8:45 for registration. High School Text Books The custom of selling high school text books from the school office will not be continued. Neal’s variety store will sell both high school and grammar-grade text books. Friday morning, after they have properly registered and filled programme cards, the high school classes will be given a separate order blank for each text book. Each high school pu pil will sign for the texts he wishes ordered. He may then have until six o’clock Friday evening in which to change his mind and have Mr. Neal mark his name off any order. In case he does not do this, he wiU be requir ed to pay for all books he signs up for. Therefore, we give below a list of high school text books. Eighth Grade: Literature and Life Book 1, Latin for Today, Gray & Jenkins; Elements of General Sci ence, Caldwell & Eikenberry; Labo ratory Manual for Science; New Practical English for High Schools, Lewis & Hosic; Elementary Home Economics, Revised Edition, Matth^- ews; Textbook in Citizenship, Hugh es; Modern Mathematics 8th, Schor- ling & Clark. Ninth Grade: New High School Algebra, Schorling & Clark; Litera ture and Life, Book 2; New Practi cal English for High Schools, Lewis & Hosic; History of Europe, Ancient and Medieval, Robinson & Breasted; New Essentials Civic Biology, Hun ter; New Laboratory Problems; Sci ence Note Book; Latin for Today, 2nd year. Gray & Jenkins; New Lat in Grammar, Bennett; New Latin Composition, Part 2, Bennett; Ele mentary Home Economics, Revised, Matthews. Tenth Grade: New Plane Geome try, Durell & Arnold; Literature and Life, Book 3; Written and Spoken English, Clippinger; History Europe —Our own times, Robinson & Breas ted; Phonetic Shardenal, Chardenal; Easy French, Snow & Lebon; Cicero, Bennett. 11th Grade: Literature and Life, Book 4; Written and Spoken Eng lish, Clippinger; History of U. S., Beard & Beard; Elements of Physics, Millikan, Gale & Pyle; Laboratory Manual; Science Note Book; Aeneid, Bennett; Phonetic Chardenal, Char denal; French Reader, Aldrich & Foster; Cosette; Voyage de M. Perri- NEBO NEWS Nebo, Aug. 20.—Miss Rose has re turned home from Columbus, Ohio, where she has been attending sum mer school. Mrs. R. 0. Wilson, daughter Mar garet, and son, John, spent last week visiting relatives and friends in the eastern part of the state. G. D. Taylor and family attended the funeral of T. P. Satterwhite at Dysartsville Monday. Mrs. Robert Bland of Caroleen spent last week here with her moth er, Mrs. Eliza Wilson. ■ Miss Lois Kincaid of Winston-Sa lem spent a few days last week here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kincaid. . - Miss Margaret Loranz of Nash ville, Tenn., visited Miss Helen Plant recently. Rev. and Mrs. Charles Hunt and children of Shenandoah, Va., visited the former’s brother, J. D. Hunt, during the week. Mr. and Mrs. John Stacy, Mrs. RufF and children, of Waycross, Ga., and Howard Knuckles# of Erwin, Tenn., were the guests of Mrs. J. K. Stacy for the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Griffith and Nancy Mitchem spent the week-end with relatives in Kinsport, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw of Raleigh vis ited friends here last Friday. Mrs. Shaw is beter ktnown here as Miss Mary Penny. Miss Mabel Parks has returned home after spending some time with her sister,” Mrs. Tom Harbison near Morganton. Mrs. Isaiah Watson of Rocky Mount is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Craig. The revival meeting is in progress at the Baptist Church. Rev. McGin nis of Gastonia is doing the preach ing. Everybody is invited to attend. Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon of Char lotte will preach at the Methodist Church here next Sunday evening, August 25, at 8 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ray Denton and children, of Atlanta, Ga., and Miss Daphne Spratt of Dysartsville spent Tuesday visiting Mrs. G. D. Taylor. nCniRES HISTORY RinBERFTtD COUNTY Josephus Daniels the Princi pal Speaker at Sesqui-Cen- tennial Celebration. DYSARTSVILLE NEWS. Dysartsville, Aug. 19.—The revi val meeting held in the Baptist church the past week closed on last Saturday night. There were some six or eight conversions. The preach ing was done by Rev. Mr. Bost of Valdese. His sermons were well re ceived. J. Ray Denton and family, of At lanta, Ga., ^are visiting relatives here. Miss Blanche Landis of Charlotte is visiting her parents here. Conley Laughridge and family of Marion were here Sunday. R. H. Cowan made a business trip to Marion last Saturday . “Uncle” Tom Satterwhite died in the State Hospital at Morganton Saturday night and will be buried at the Methodist church cemetery here today at 3 o’clock. Rev. J. C. Story of Marion will conduct the funeral. We are glad to learn Miss Poe Kirksey is improving after a long sickness. A revival meeting will begin at the Methodist church next Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. Rev. H. E. Stimson will do the preaching. Miss May Landis of Morganton is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Landis. We are hoping to see a good rain soon. Late corn and other crops are suffering for rain. TWO STILLS CAPTURED Last Friday a 50-gallon capacity copper still was captured by Deputy Sheriff Ben Hendley and Officer Biggerstaff. About 1200 gallons of beer was poured out and the still destroyed. A raid by Prohibition Officer J. B. Banks and Deputy Sheriff Ben Hend ley in Montford Cove township last week resulted in the loss of another still to the blockading industry in McDowell county. A complete out fit was found and 500 gallons of beer was poured out. The still was 110 gallon capacity. ■Rutherfordton, Aug. 16.— With Josephus Daniels of llaleigh, publish er of the News and Observer and isec retary of the navy under Woodrow Wilson, eulogizing Rutherford coun ty, its history and its traditions, thousands of persons gathered here today for the sesqui-centennial cel ebration of the formation of the county. Mr. Daniels was the principal speaker of the day though a parade and other entertainment features were provided for the amusement of the thousands present. Mr. Daniels, in glinwing terms, vividly pictured the history of Ruth erford county from the days when the followers of Hernando de Soto visited the valleys of the county doVn to the present time when cot ton mills, well kept farms, industrial plants and hydro-electric plants dot the landscape. He carried the coun ty through every struggle since the Indian wars before the Revolution down to the World war, citing the deeds of immortal names to Ruther ford county, especially the name of Griffith Rutherford, for whom the county was named. The deeds, the hardships and the lasting monuments erected by hardy pioneer school teachers and minis ters of the gospel were lauded by the speaker. Mr. Daniels, in his recital of the venerable history of the county, cit ed numerous mdividual names of prominent Rutherford county resi dents but did not neglect to pay tribute to unheralded and unsung “average, citizenship.” Starting with the arrival of De Soto’s men in 1539, Mr. Daniels car ried his audience through the settle ment of the section by the Scotch- Irish and Dutch of the sixteenth cen tury. In 1776 the large county of Try- on was elected from a part of Meck- lenburg^county and then, just 150 years ago, he said, the county of Tryon gave way to Lincoln and Rutherford bounties. In the days of the Revolution, and in other days, the people of Ruther ford county were divided in opinion. Tryon county was one of the three counties ii. the state to give strong est support to the British in that war and yet more than 800 men bore arms for independence. Mr. Daniels again turned the years back before the Revolution to trace the life of General Griffith, Rutherford. His exploits in stamp ing out Indian uprisings and his work against Ferguson in Western North Carolina were recited. Indicative of the part played by the heroes of Rutherford county in the great war for independence, Mr. Daniels cited the gravestones in the Brittain Ptesbyterian chur«h, nine miles northeast of here, where the graves of many who were soldiers of the Revolution are yet marked today. When it came time to select a new name to replace “Tryon,” the name of the “royal governor who had thwarted where he could the early dreams of independence of the peo ple of North Carolina,” the names of two American patriots, Lincoln and Rutherford were selected. Among places where Griffith Rutherford saw service were against the Indians against the Scovelite Tories in outh Carolina and under General Lincoln at Savannah. Mr. Daniels quoted from Ashe, North Carolina historian, “he ren dered immediately to the people of North Carolina more original service than any other No^th Carolinian during the war.” Rutherford, after the war, moved to Tennessee and there a county also bears his name. W. H. Avery of Burke county has begun construction of the first monolithic conscrete silo to be built in the county. Mr. very Asells whole milk in .Morganton. Everybody enjoys seeing WIL LIAM HAINES in the comedy-drama type of story he makes. One of his best is “THE DUKE STEPS OUT”, with JOAN CRAWFORD, at Marion Theatre next Monday and Tuesday.