The Mill Owners and
Strikers End Dispute
Concord, June 11—Yesterday at 4 o’clock at a conference held
in the office of J.W. Cannon, the mill troubles in Concord and Kannapolis were
settled satisfactory to all parties. Representing the unions were J.H. Monroe,
president, and L.M. Barnhardt, secretary and treasurer of the Concord union,
and Otis A. Menton, president, and Charles A. Luther, secretary and treasurer
of the Kannapolis union. Representing the mills were M.L. Cannon of the Cannon,
Cabarrus and Gibson mills; L.H. Webb of the Locke; F.J. Haywood of the Brown
and Norcott; and D.B. Coltrane of the Kerr bleachery. The settlement is entirely
satisfactory to all parties and work will begin tomorrow and all people will be
ordered out at once. An open shop policy will be pursued and no discrimination
will be made. This ends the great turmoil of the past eight weeks.
The mill owners will make no discrimination between union
and nonunion employes. Mills are to be operated on the principle of the open
shop. Mill owners will cheerfully meet with committees of their own employes at
any time for the purpose of adjusting any matters of mutual concern that may
arise and grant them a 55-hour week and a basis of pay for 60 hours’ work and
in addition to this cancel all obligations during the 10 weeks the mills were
closed down. These were accepted by the representatives and there appears now
to be nothing but harmony between mill owners and employes.
A big jollification
meeting was held at the courthouse tonight. The wires are busy calling union
people to work.
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