Norcott and Brown Mills Workers End Strike, Sept. 4, 1921

Termination of Textile Strike Now Certain. . . Employes of Norcott and Brown Mills Will Go to Work Tuesday. . . Mill Owners Display Disinterested Attitude as to Decision

All cotton mill workers in Charlotte, Concord, and Kannapolis will return to their jobs Tuesday morning, thereby bringing to a termination the strike which has been in progress for three months and which, at one time, involved 8,000 people. Meeting in their mill communities Saturday night, the workers voted to back to work, accepting the terms as previously laid down by mill owners. Tuesday was selected as the date for returning to work because Monday is Labor Day.

L.M. Barnhardt and F.J. Sloop, leaders of the strikers in Concord, announced last night that they would not press their previous demands for re-employment by the Brown and Norcott mills. These two men had been operatives in these mills, of the Johnston chain, prior to the strike. Because of their activity as union leaders, officials of these plants refused to re-employ them when workers voted, to go back last Tuesday. The other operatives of the two mills held out in support of their leaders and the strike of employes of these plants has continued. Barnhardt and Sloop went to Norcott and Brown mill officials last night and asked if they would be allowed to return to work. When informed that they would not, both said they would not press their case further, preferring not to stand in the way of a settlement of the difficulty.

Announcement of the termination of the strike in Charlotte, Concord, and Kannapolis came from mill owners and union leaders at Concord late last night. Mill officials here denied any knowledge of the result of employes’ meetings and local textile union men could not be communicated with.

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The Norcott mill has been running with a limited force during the past week. The Brown mill has been closed. The use of a full complement of workers in these two mills will end the strike entirely in so far as the Johnston chain of seven mills is concerned.

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From the front page of The Charlotte News, Sunday, Sept. 4, 1921. To read the rest of the newspaper article, go to newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn91068256/1921-09-04/ed-1/seq-1/.