Cannon Mills Asking for Tax Breaks, Sept. 15, 1921

Other Mills Now After Reduction. . . Six Cabarrus Concerns Ask Same Favor as Granted to Cannon Syndicate. . . No Decision Is Arrived At. . . Order of Judge Boyd Continuing His Injunction Against Union Printers Is a Most Sweeping Document

The Cannon mill’s appeal from the appraisal of the county commissioners, evidence and argument in which cases were heard two weeks ago, brought six other Cabarrus mills here to ask that they be reduced as low as the Cannon mills, respectively.

The board of equalization, which heard the Cannon case first, could not reach a decision because no two sets of figured agreed. Judge Manning, a member of the board of which Commissioner Watts is chairman and revenue commissioner, told the petitioners that it did not appear to him that they had made much of a fight before the Cabarrus commissioners.

The six mills, having a valuation of about $3,000,000, declared that they would not ask any reductions if the Cannons were required to pay on the assessments made by the county authorities.

Judge W.M. Bond’s order, continuing until the final hearing the injunction obtained against Raleigh printing and pressmen’s unions and members, was signed here and is one of the most sweeping documents in the annals of the state courts.

From The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Sept. 15, 1921