Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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Union Avenue west of Buena Vista where these people lived.
That lasted for about a year, a year and a half: they had
to have police protection for them all the time. But
there was no organization for them, to my knowledge, in
mills after that . . . the organization come after that.
And then those days even during the war there - after the
war started, if you wanted to learn a trade
you had to put up a hundred dollar bond if you stay there
four years and earn your trade.
Most of the labor unions came after that, as far as
the cotton industry is concerned - same way with Poolers.
That more or less came after the war was over, and of course
we were so proud because everyone was working
and so on: even the gun shop you built for Paole back of
Meadow mill - that was still busy fox a couple years after
the war was over. They made them long guns that they used
on railways . . . they were railway guns; took two flat cars
to put them on just to haul them around to shoot thm.
Harvey: Well, when they brought those strike breakers fn,
where did they bring them from?
Lewis: I really couldn't tell you . . . I don't know; they
were foreigners - they were people that weren't from
come in from the south, they were foreigners. Later on, we
had people come in from around Culpepper and all around down
there, later on in years. I knew that from the neighborhood.
But, in World War I most all the people that lived in
Clipper and , Woodberry, Stone Hill, Brookhill,