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Friday, August 19, 2022

Hired Under False Pretenses, New Men Refuse Work, Aug. 19, 1922

New Men Refuse to Start Work at Spencer Shop. . . Spencer Shopmen Entertain Men After They Refuse to Go to Work at Shops

Salisbury, N.C., Aug. 19—(By Associated Press)—The 35 men brought to Spencer last night for work in the Southern Railway shops and who refused to leave the train at Spencer, saying that they had been informed that there was not strike signed an application for work, in which they were informed that they were to take the places of strikers, according to Southern Railway officials here today.

The men after refusing to leave the train at Spencer were brought on to Salisbury, where they were taken in charge by strikers and entertained in the Moose Hall. They left this morning on number 20 at 2 o’clock, presumably enroute for New York.

Sheriff Krider, in a telephone conversation with Governor Morrison last night, informed the Governor that conditions here were virtually the same as when the governor was in Salisbury Thursday.

From the front page of The Fayetteville Observer, Aug. 19, 1922

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