1914 June 29 Atlanta Constitution 10 Pages Georgia

1914 June 29 Atlanta Constitution 10 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1914

PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 3 MEDIATION URGED AT MASS MEETING TO SETTLE STRIKE Differences Between Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills and Former Employees Dis- cussed at the Grand. BOTH PARTIES ASKED TO SELECT ARBITERS Addresses on Problems of Capital and Labor Made By Dr. Wilmer, Dr. White and Marion Jackson. Following addresses stressing the necessity of an immediate and amicable settlement for the public good of the differences between the strikers of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills and the Mill Owners and an improvement of conditions at that Mill, some 2,000 citizens at a mass meeting at the Grand Opera House, Sunday afternoon, adopted resolutions urging the Mill Owners to meet the offer of the strikers to arbitrate their differences in the same spirit of fairness in which the striking employees have made the offer. It was further urged that in order that such a mediation might be more binding and that there might not be the semblance of grounds for subsequent charges of unfairness on the part of the proposed board of mediation by either contending party, that the employees and the Mill Owners select their own board of mediation instead of having the Men and Religion Forward Movement and the m