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r PAGE TWO THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLLVION. S. C. GASTONIA SECTOR GROWS ROWDY Strikers Clash With Officers of Law. Many Are Jailed Following At tempt To Stage Parade. Charlotte, N. C., April 22.—A near riot at Gastonia, N. C., with scores of strikers reported wounded in a clash with deputy sheriffs, and a guberna torial protest against the recent de struction of union headquarters there by a masked mob, enlivened the Caro- linas textile strike today.. Sheriff’s officers at Gastonia late this afternoon oroughb* pistol butts and blackjacks into play to halt a pa rade of strikers and 29 jiaraders in cluding nine women, were jailed on charges ranging from, blocking the sidewalks to drunkenness. No one was reported seriously injured. A city or dinance had been passed recently pro hibiting street parades without per mits. Leggette Blyth, a newspaper report er, was knocked unconscious by a deputy sheriff who struck him with his pistol as he entered the strike zone. The Gaston county officer de clined to comment on the incident and Solicitor Carpenter ordered an inves tigation. Among those held in jail tonight were Amy Schechter and Vera Bush, strike organizers representing the National Textile Workers union. They were charged with blocking the side walks. Tom P. Jimison,. attorney for the union, said he would ask for a hear ing tomorrow. I Five thousand textile mill workers I in seven communities of North and South Carolina remained idle. Threat I of an additional strike at the Calvine j mill of the Chadwick Hoskins chain ; failed to materialize. At a mass meet- i ing last night employees of the mill I voted to demand the reinstatement of j three members of the National Tex- : tile Workers union who had been dis- I « > charged and to strike at 4 o’clock this afternoon if refused. Tonight the mill was still in oper ation and William Sroka, represent ing the union, said the strike had been “postponed.” He would make no fur- cher statement. Officials of the Decotah mill at Lex ington, N. C., announced the plant would re-open tomorrow. It closed , April 12, executives said, because of “over production and unrest among the employees.” In South Carolina, where at Union, Anderson, Greenville and Woodruff, non-union mill operatives are striking, the impasse between the mill manage ments and strikers continued. Striking employees of the Monarch and Ottaifay mills at Union today pre sented the management with a state- Glenn May Not fto^secute King Chester, April 20.—Hon. J. Lyles Glenn, of Chester, nominated by Presi dent Hoover last week for the extra federal judgship in South Carolina, in all probability will qualify for the ju dicial position before the trial of Rafe King, indicted in York county for murder in connection with the death of his wife, is called at the regular term of court in Chester county in July,-and will not prosecute the case in his capacity as solicitor, he stated a few days ago. Arthur Gaston, of Chester, Who has been associated with Solicitor Glenn in trial of other important cases and in preparation of the Rafe King case, will be associated with the successor to Solicitor Glenn, who is yet to be named by Governor Richards. “Were it not for the fact that I am cognizant of the ability of Mr. Gas ton as a trial attorney, I would prob ably delay qualifying for the judge- ship in the event the nomination is confirmed, until after the trial of this important case,” Solocitor Glenn said. No announcement has been made by Governor ^ Richards concerning the probable successor to Mr. Glenn. The appointment will be made soon after Mr. Glenn is confirmed and qualifies. Clinton Man Gets - School Promotion Friends and relatives here will learn with interest of the recent election of A. C. Holland to the position of super intendent of Jones county schools. North Carolina. Mr. Holland is a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Hamp Holland of the Pea Ridge section near here, and a graduate of Presbyterian college. In addition to his teaching position, 1 he is proprietor of Cape Fear Print- ! ing company. Falcon, N. C., and ed- |itor of a religious magazine. The fol- [lowing item in reference to his new j work is taken from the Raleigh News and Observer; state, has been elected as superintend ent of Jones county public schools. Mr. Holland is principal of the South Riv er consolidated schools in Cumberland county. He was-valedictorian of ^ his class at Presbyterian college, Clinton, C. C., in 1916. Last summer,he ac quired the master’s degrree from the University of North Carol^a. He comes highly recommended, having spent ten years as princijial of the Falcon high school, and three years as principal of the South River Consoli dated schools near Falcon. ment of terms upon which they would return to work. The management re fused to accept the terms and coun tered with a proposition of their own, but it was refus^ by the strikers. [ Trenton, N. C., April 7.—A. C. Hol- j land, a native of South Carolina,' but whose 13 years of teaching have been spent in Cumberland county, this Dr. Frank F. Hicks DENTIST Office National Bank Building Dr. Smith’s Former Location. Phone 153 Columbia Druggist Leaves $500,000 Columbia, April 22.—An estate of more t^an half a million dollars, most of it stocks and’bonds, was left by W. J. Murray, Columbia, wholesale drug gist and merchant, who died March 31, his will revealed when filed today. With the exception of $21,000, which goes to five charitable and religious institutions and to distant relatives, the residue of the estate was be^ BOND FLOWER SHOP FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 157 W. Main St. Phone 396 queathed to the widow and four chil dren. Bequests to religious and education al institutions include: Interest on $2,000 to trustees of Columbia col lege; interest on $5,000 to board of missions, Methodist Episcopal church. South, for support of missions in for eign fields; interest on $2,500 to su* perannuated ministers of the South Carolina church conference, Methodist Episcopal church. South; interest on $2,500 to lower South Carolina confer ence, Methodist Episcopal church, ^ South; interest on $2,500 to each con ference for support of aged, infirm and superannuated ministers; and in terest on $1,000 to South Carolina Association for the Blind, Columbia. CHILDREN’S CHAPTER MEETS MONDAY The Children of the Confederacy will meet next Monday, April 29, at four o’clock, with Miss Sadie Chand ler. SEED FOR SALE Coker’s No. 5 Planting Seed for sale. CLINTON COTTON OIL CO. Of SOUTH .CAPOtiNA, •I fit f f I jmnnfffnffCf rrf.r 11 I j .'d -rrrrrrrnr~ n-rrrrrrrr- ■.A.« Iruhtjtry Proaper»-So Progptr Ttw PtopW Skilled Specialist or Laborer—Which? HE tendency in the textile industry in recent years has been toward specialization. The introduction of ^modern machinery, as in other industries, is developing highly skilled sjiecialists. They, under improved conditions, wdth activities confined to more productive work, are enabled to accomplish more, accept greater responsibilities and earn more. The simpler duties are not allowed to annoy and retard the efficiency of the more capable, but are passed on to the unskilled. / \V eavers, for example, who formerly handled inferior yams with limited machinery, were taxed to the limit to care for a small number of looms, and were obliged in so doing to fill batteries, remove cloth 'N" and attend to the various other trivial details that arise in weaving. Now they are assisted by battery hands and cloth men. The efforts of the weaver are confined to that portion of the process of weaving that requires skill, principally .that of supervision and of tieing broken strands of yarn. As a consequence he can handle an increased number of looms and yet handle them more satisfactorily to himself, as well as to his employer. It is ine\dtable that so sound a principle should succeed; and it has. It has digiijfied the position of the weaver, and enlarged his earning power. Simultaneously it has increased production, reduced overhead, and made possible a projiortionate increase in wages for the skilled operative, and a better quality of cloth. History shows that such innovations in industry even though marking a distinct stej) forward, are not always iii the beginning understood. They sometimes unfortunately cause suspicion, even though sound in princijile and inevitable in tlie-])rogress of hmnanity. Man, however, cannot stand still. He must pro gress. Personal efficiency is the aim of all mankind, and the weaver is no exception. Like his associates, the loom fixer, the spiling the carder, the spooler, he desires to ipiprove himself, and he will. He sees in extend ed labor a bigger, fetter and an e;asier job, with greater opportunities of increased pay and advancement. The textile industry is a highly scientific industry. The public would find its intricate details • . _ - difficult to comprehend. Even the weaver sometimes, with sincerest intentions, may mistake increased oppor tunities for hardships. But in tjme he understands.— As aptly expressed in a recent agreement between executives and operatives in a South Carolina Cotton Mill: “The fundamental principles of extended labor are ^correct when properly applied.” ^ ^