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into the local press. All the trade papers were full of it. It was a matter of great excitement to Governors, and to employers, to the Cotton Textile Associati on, and to the trade unions themselves. For instance, William Green recognized the great hazard of the flying wedge.

The great hazard of the flying wedge, which employers saw and feared, as did William Green, was that total strangers, thugs, hold-up men, disreputable characters, could join a flying wedge and get into the mill. They could commit depredations. They could smash machinery, and they did occasionally. At that time no one thought of the possibility that Communists might get into the mill that way. So far as I know no one turned up in that textile drive who has later been recognized as a Communist, but there may have been some. It was made up largely of more excitable elements in Grorman's own wing of the textile union, with the original nucleus of them recruited from some of the union memberships in the northern textile mills where they had been organized for some time. They picked up rather quickly some of the more headstrong elements in the southern mills who expressed largely emotion and frustration over the fact that they had never had any chance to have a good, ordinary, well-conducted union.





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