Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore
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Harvey: Ok, go ahead . . .<br />
~ewis: Your bosses were more friendly to you and they tried<br />
to look out for you and if people had trouble at home they<br />
sort <strong>of</strong> . . , everybody sort <strong>of</strong> looked out for each other,<br />
The unions in the mills didn't come along until after that.<br />
Before I'd went to work over the mill they tried to start<br />
something over there, but that never materialized.<br />
Harvey: That's before you got there?<br />
<strong>Lewis</strong>: Well. . .<br />
Harvey: Now, you worked in Hooper from maybe 1916 to 19 . . .<br />
<strong>Lewis</strong>: NO, '17 . , . 1 went in there Hooper's . . about<br />
latter part <strong>of</strong> 1917. Worked there until 1919.<br />
Harvey: Ok . . . well, in that time they had a couple <strong>of</strong><br />
strikes in the M t. Vernon mills.<br />
<strong>Lewis</strong>: Well, to my knowledge I don't remember having any<br />
strikes right at that time around before the war was on and<br />
the war . . . the strikes and trouble came after - more or<br />
less organized after that, tried ta organize. They had their<br />
trouble. There had been trouble earlier and they had brought<br />
people in the Meadow M i l l and all, and they had to put<br />
police down there to protect them. Had a little shanty there<br />
at Buena Vista - where Buena Vista and Union Avenue is now;<br />
and they had them two houses . . . they were duplexes on
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