Textile Workers Want At Least Half of the Money Taken From Them in 1920, April 1, 1923

Textile Workers Want Increases. . . Ask Officers to Demand at Least Half Amount of Reduction

By the Associated Press

Charlotte, N.C., March 31—The North and South Carolina council of textile workers meeting tonight at Concord asked its officers to enter into negotiations with cotton mills for wage increases of at least half the amount of all decreases since 1920 and referring specifically to a recent five per cent increase made in Gaston County, termed it a “measly amount” and “an insult instead of an increase.” Support of the public, the press and the pulpit was asked in the movement which it was said was intended to bring textile workers in the Carolinas to a par in wages with those in other sections, and expressions of appreciation of other wage increases were made by speakers.

The council at which 25 mill communities were represented elected James. F. Barrett, editor of the Labor Herald of Charlotte, as its president. It will meet again on April 28 at Huntersville, N.C., to hear reports on progress in the efforts being made to unionize textile workers in the south.

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Wage Increase

Charlotte, N.C., March 31—Wages of all operatives of the Highland Park Cotton mills here will be raised 10 per cent Monday, C.W. Johnston, president of the concern, announced tonight. He said the action was voluntary.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, April 1, 1923