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and that they never have been able to establish any kind of a place for themselves. The southern worker is no longer a plantation worker with a piece of land that he has some claims to, nor is he a northern mechanic. He's not a mechanic at all. The skill of a textile worker is quite slight. It's not a serious skill, like a machinist, or a printer, or anything of that sort. The textile industry follows the up and down of the cotton market and of the fashions, so he has never been sure of himself and of his wages and of his income, what it will be for a year. Generally the wages, hours and economic terms have been fixed by the employer not by any general scale, but by what the market will bear.

For that reason when they are faced with a situation they don't like, they get emotional and are very likely to get hotheaded. Well, there proved to be a good many hotheads who followed this Gorman flying wedge. They created a great disturbance.

We had a very rough time with it all. We would walk in and make a settlement of a small strike in one mill, meeting great resentment on the part of the employers. Then we would walk into another to make a settlement. By the time we got to the third mill there was another