Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1929, Page 34

3 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, B C. MARCH 24, o 1929—PART R ' 'WOMAN VISITING RAYON WORKERS i MINES AND LUMBER MILLS : —_— | ing Extraordinary About! | | Tasks, Says Miss | | Barnett. [ WIN PAY BOOST Tennessee Strike Is Ended After 10 Days—5,500 Em- ployes Affected. Formerly in Charge of Medi- | cal Institution—From Pennsylvania. | By (he Associated Pres. { BLIZABETHTON, Tenn.. March 23— | The 10-day strike of employes of the | American Glansstoff Corporation rayon plant, one of the largest in the history | of the new industrial South, was ended | yesterday. All together 5,500 workers in | the Glanzstoff plant and that of the American Bemberg Corporation, under | the same management, which also sus- | peded. were affected. By terms of an agreement adopted yesterday, & portion of the general wage increase sought by the strikers js grant- | #d, and while the Textile Workers'| Union local that was formed was not recognized, it was agreed there is to b:‘i no’ discrimination against it. | Strike Started by Girls. | About 800 girls at the Glanzstoff plant started the strike with a demand for | higher wages, and the concern sus-| pended operations. Subsequently, be- | cause of picketing and to protect its| workers, the Bemberg plant was rlosad.‘ although it resumed on a limited scale | with a large force of deputy sheriffs on | guard duty. | Two companies of Tennessee Natlonal | Guard served as deputy sherifls toward the last to preserve order | The agreement between plant officials | and workers' committees was ratificd al- most unanimously at a mass meeting terday afternoon. Under its provisions. the wage scale for man employes at the | Glangstoff plant will be the same as that prevailing at the Bemberg plant prior to March 18, representing an average increase of about 20 per cent. | ‘Woman employes will receive 18 cents an hour for the first three weeks: 20 cents for the next three, and 22 cents | BY GRETCHEN SMITH. Superintending the operation of two coal mines and managing two lumber mills is modestly disclaimed as an ex- traordinary undertaking by Miss Mar- garet Barnett of Somersett County, Pennsylvania, who for many years has pe! ly conducted the successful [ jon of her numerous business | interests, which might well be con- sidered sufficient to occupy the services of several trained managers. Barnett is now in Washington, the guest of Mrs. H. H. Votaw, sister of the late President Harding, and is the candidate for office of the cotre- | sponding secretary general of the Society | of the Daughters of the American Rev- | olution, whose members will convene | in Washington early in April for the Continental Congress, when elections will be held for offices in the soclety. Miss Barnett is the daughter of a| Presbyterian minister and was brought | |up and educated in the southwestern | part of Pennsylvania. In her early | youth she developed unusual talent for | woodcarving and water color painting, | but circumstances were not auspicious for the pursuit of studies in these sub- jects, and a few years before the war |she found herself carrying the entire responsibility of the business and ex- ecutive management of a large medical institution in Somersett County. Partnership in Mines. She proved herself so efficient in the thereafter until efficiency brings them | management of this place that when to & 24-cent rate. That scale also is an | the owner of the property adjoining the | increase. Agree to Arbitration. Employes are to return to work un- deér the “open shop” plan, but the agreement specifies there is to be no discrimination against the union form- ed by the strikers. Experienced ofm to nd those with dependents will n preference in returning to work WHAT MAKES A REO % REO FLYING C institution discovered rich coal veins upon_his lands he offered Miss Barnett | as activities will be resumed gradually. | Deputy sheriffs and injunctions were | | withdrawn, It provided that any | further grievances shall be settled through conferences between employes’ | | committees and plant offici HERE RUNS 4 s h __MISS_MARGARET BARNETT. a partnership in the mine which he de- cided to open. The offer was accepted and Miss Barnett assumed the manage- ment of the business. She soon dis- covered that there was also coal upon some lands which she had personally acquired, and thereupon a second mine was opened. Miss Barnett superintended the diamend drilling of several hundred acres of coal lands, part of which lay on_a_mountain_side. involving difficult BumsteadsWormSyrup “To children an angel of mercy.’” Where directions are followed, IT NEVER FAILS. Desnite scarcity and enormous cost of SANTONIN. it contuins full dose. Ktood sixty vears' fest. Sold everywhere or by mail, 50 & bottle. ®st. C. A Voorhees, M. D.. Philadelphis | DANDRUFF — | ventures |and arduous work. She also engaged all the workers for the mines, from orman to minrs, and even supervised the clerical and business sides of the industry. During the war almost the entire output of these mines was used | by the Government. Much of the coal | used in Washington at that time came from the Somersett mines. When Miss Barnett realized that a slump in ccal was inevitable she decided | to start in the lumber business, with a two-fold purpose. Dut to her great in- | terest in the community in which she ! lived, she wished to give employment to | those who suflered from the “laying off” of the mines, and, secondly, she | realized that there was a good business proposition to the cutting into a 400- | acre tract which she had purchased by | means of the profits realized in the coal | indust: Miss Barnett negotiated all ales herself, and after receipt of orders, she would “cut out” her lumber. S8hip- | ments have been made to numerous | *{ | sections of the Atlantic seaboard, Ithough the principal business is done with New York and the New England | States. A Seasoned “Lumberwoman.” Miss Barnett is now a seasoned “lum- berwoman” and is thoroughly informed upon all subjects pertaining to this | business, Although she has many va- | rieties of lumber on her lands, includ- ing ash, oak, poplar and chestnut, Miss | Barnett states that she has found greatest profits in oak and “sugar” or hard maple. Nothing is wasted in Miss Barnett's lumber business, as every part of the lumber from the slabs to the sawdust is disposed of with profit. ‘ Every phase of her different business has been studied by Miss | Barnett, who is not only a business woman but an accomplished mechanic. One of her many friends stated that she dmgaped in unexpectedly one day to see Miss Barnett, who was found after much searching. busily engaged in taking apart a defective engine in her power house. ‘The headquarters from which Miss Barnett conducts most of her business dealings, is a picturesque log cabin, remodeled and rebuilt by its owner from the original home of a Pennsyl- vania pioneer, who setlted in that lo- cality 200 years ago. Very close to the | cabin may be seen remains of the char- ‘coal beds of an old iron forge, the , first of i® kind in America, for which | the ore had to be transported from | Cumberland, a distance of 50 miles. - T New Breed of Dogs. 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