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MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 5. 1959
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Massachusetts Town Glad To Be Rid of
Textile Industry; Doesn't Want It Back
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ground" before World War I.
In those years, was the
larsjeit woolen and worsted
center In th world
Today, not a major mill Is
left. Lawrence does not want
thera beck.
This city of 7,000 Is close
to completing an eight -year
recovery program. At a pak.
textile mills here employed
40,000 persons. When the last
of its major textile mills fold
ed in 1952, the town plunged
into depression,
More than 23,000 were un
employed. What followed was
pfogram of diversification
which has brought in more
than 70 different firms with
more than 20,000 jobs.
Unemployment now is down
to 3,000, with many of the
unemployed being listed as
"chronic jobless."
Other Slrills Evident
There are plenty of skilled
former textile workers
around, doing a variety o
jobs. The younger group,
many of them women who
were highly-skilled menders,
have moved into new jobs.
The sprawling Westinghouse
plants in the area took several
tiyjusand. and later reported
the women menders were
"very qufck" to pick up the
dexterity needed for assem
bling small parts.
Most of the older textile
workirj, thi veteran loom
specialists, retired. The mid
dle age group took anything
it could find. They are run
Aiaj) elevators, working as
Janitors, driving taxis.
Mayor Thomas J. Buckley,
key figure in the city's emet
ine "operation bootstrap" re
covery program, admits Law
rence might accept new tex
tile industry if it was forth
coming, but with one big
qualification.
Buckley, who himself work
ed in the mills as e boy, said,
"We would take any good
firm," heavily emphasizing
the "good."
Another Official Agrees
John P. O'Malley. full-time
director of the city's indus
trial redevelopment commit
tee, agrees. "
We have a more stable
industry now, e more diversi
fied economy. Our economy
now overrides strikes and we
don't have any of them.
"Our unemployed today are
mostly unskilled workers. If
a skilled man is walking the
streets today, there's some
thing wrong with him."
Ralph D. Arivelle business
agent of the local Textile
Workers of America AFL-CIO
Union sums up in two expres
sive words and a shrug: '
"What's left?
"I know what's happening
in the South. It happened
here. A company gives wage
increases. It feels it should
get increased production.
Southern Manufacturers rec
ognize organized workers
have more chance of gaining
through organization. They
called it 'encroachment' here.
The companies feel they
should fight unions. They fear
them. But the union only goes
iis tor what it feels the work
er need and deserve. That's
all there is to it."
tftue feeding Ground
Labor organizations used
Lawrence as a textile union
breeding ground before World
War I. Workers struck for the
first time' in 1912, following
organization by the Industrial
Workers of the World.
One woman was killed
when police fired on e mob
at the , height of a violent
seven month strike. The
workers won a major victory
and for the first time estab
lished collective bargaining in
the industry.
The second major Lawrence
was in 1919. It lasted six
weeks. Workers struck, seek
ing pay hikes of 12.5 per cent.
The mills eventually paid in
creases of 25 to 35 per cent.
Workers won all concessions
in a brief 1921 strike.
The biggest walkouts came
in 1931. In February, the mill
hands returned after a short
strike in which nothing was
gained.
Workers Lost Strike
In October, in protest
against wage cuts, the work
ers joined the National Tex
tile Workers Union. Manu
facturers, who had agreed to
early demands, refused any
concessions after the workers'
demanded even more. The
strikers finally returned to
work without any concessions
at all and soon were given
another 10 per cent cut.
Against this backdrop, de
terioration of Lawrence's tex
tile industry began. It was
gradual, brought on by rising
costs and increasing compe
tition, mostly from overseas
but also from the South. Com
peting mills with lower costs
were able to undercut the
Lawrence mill prices and
gradually force them out of
business. .
Most of the region's largest
mills did not transfer to the
South. They were liquidated
on the spot.
Mill machinery including
thousands of looms were left
here. Much of the equipment,
too old to save, has been
sledged to scrap metal - - a
mute, rusting reminder of
what once was the textile in
dustry in Lawrence.
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Portland Set for
Rose Festival,
Centennial Show
Portland - (WD - The city of
Portland was just about all
set today for its Rose Festival
and this year's added attrae-tibn-the
100-day Oregon Cen
tennial Exposition.
Next Wednesday is the key
day for both events. That's the
day the queen of the 1959
Rose Festival will be crown
ed and also the day for the
opening of the Centennial Ex
position in north Portland.
The Rose Festival this year
again will feature the South
west Park blocks center. The
fun-filled Merrykhana parade
will start things off Tuesday
night with the grand floral
parade on Saturday, June 13.
High Moon Opening
But the one they're really
talking about is the Centen
nial Exposition.
At high noon next Wednes
day Gov. Mark Hatfield will
press a button, a rocket burst
will be touched off and there
will be a 100-gun salute.
. The old P-I building south
of the Interstate bridge was
converted into the Centennial
center. And officials today
pronounced all major con
struction work completed.
"We're in the cleanup
stage," said John Hyatt, Expo
sition operations director.
"Not even the weather can
stop us now," he said.
Mural Left Alone
They're calling the Centen
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show on the West Coast since
the San Francisco World's
Fair.
The Centennial Commission
has decided to leave a 500-foot
mural done by a local studio
as it is. Some had objected
that it was too drab; but
others preferred the subdued
colors. It's located on the east
end of the main building. .
As for rain, the Commission
is prepared. It brought $30,000
worth of rain insurance
Wednesday. If one-tenth of an
inch of rain should fall in
Portland between 10 a.m. and
4 p.m. either Friday, Satur
day or Sunday of the opening
week the state would get $10,
000 for each day it happened.
Portland-TOPD-The Bureau of
Land Management said today
a weed for which there are
no known methods of control
has invaded Malheur . and
Baker counties in eastern
Oregon. The weed is called
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