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591 Strikers March to Court House and Pledge to Remain Peaceful, Aug. 20, 1921

Concord Strikers Gave Pledge to Law. . . March to Court House and Announce Submission to Authority

Concord, August 20—Five hundred and ninety-one Concord and Kannapolis members of the United Textile Workers of America marched to the courthouse here Friday night and gave their pledge to city and county authorities that they would do their utmost to maintain “law and order.”

This decision was reached at a meeting of 700 union members presided over by James F. Barrett, president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor. Every textile member present at the meeting who was physically able to walk to the courthouse was a member of the gathering that appeared before the civil authorities, and among those present were children, young men and women, and parents with babies in their arms.

Mr. Barrett, in addressing the mass meeting, made the proposition that the textile workers of this county show the civil authorities of the city and county that they stand for law and order by going to the sheriff and mayor and offering their services to keep down any disorder of any kind.

L.M. Barnhardt, member of the International Executive committee; Mr. Eataugh, International organizer; and F.M. Sloop, president of the local union also addressed the mass meeting and asked the members of the union here to abide by the law and offer their services to the civil authorities.

From the front page of The Charlotte News, Saturday, August 20, 1921

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