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	Textile workers strike (1934) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in United States history at the time, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and all over the southeastern United States and lasted twenty-two days.
		Here again, workers were often more impetuous than their unions: to take one striking example, the workers at the Loray Mill in Gastonia walked out despite the efforts of the communist-led National Textile Workers Union, founded during the Communist Party's short-lived attempt to create revolutionary unions, to hold them back.
		Textile workers across the region, from worsted workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts and silk weavers in Paterson, New Jersey, to cotton millhands in Greenville, South Carolina, engaged in hundreds of isolated strikes, even though there were thousands of unemployed workers ready to take their place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Textile_workers_strike_(1934) (2632 words)

	Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Textile workers needed allies, constituencies in the larger society who would be willing to weigh in against the power of the mill owners" (p.
		The union boom and the strike of 1934 are the core of Irons's study, the substance of her argument that conflict, power, and repression are the keys to understanding southern labor.
		Denied northern support, southern textile workers lost their strike and their union, a failure that unleashed a flood of recriminations and employer retaliation that would undermine any renewed organizing drive for decades.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0476.shtml (1451 words)

	The General Textile Strike of 1934 From Maine to Alabama John A. Salmond
		In January 1933, the United Textile Workers of America was in danger of collapse.
		Nevertheless, the 1934 strike was a nationwide one, involving hundreds of thousands of silk, woolen, and rayon workers, all represented by the UTW and mostly living in states outside the South.
		Setting the strike within a New Deal context and focusing on its impact on the future of labor relations in the industry and on the lives of those who participated in it, The General Textile Strike of 1934 fills an important gap in American labor history.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring2002/salmond.htm (387 words)

	Waldrep/Southern Workers and the Search for Community. Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Striking workers in Rhode Island had little or no communication with their northern Alabama counterparts; even in the South, worker response to the strike call could vary enormously over a few square miles of Piedmont terrain.
		To most southern textile workers, however, what distinguished the General Strike from all other conflicts before or since was the use of the flying squadrons.
		The degree to which the UTWA was able to organize workers and strike mills across the South in 1934 indicates the remarkable coherence of the South's textile villages as a separate and distinct subculture.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/waldrep/03.html (5064 words)

	Alabama Review: General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama, The
		John A. Salmond's General Textile Strike of 1934 examines the strike as a national event planned by a single union and executed in what was thought to be a manner beneficial to all textile workers.
		Salmond argues that the strike was always a national one but that most historians have focused on the South because the majority of the nation's textile plants were located in the southern states by 1934 and because of the vital importance of the region in the eyes of both the union and the mills.
		While not undermining his point that the strike should be examined in the context of textile activities across the nation, the emphasis on the Carolinas reinforces the existing literature's tendency to focus on those states as the crucial battleground.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3880/is_200501/ai_n9465842 (722 words)

	Class Struggle, Volume 4 Number 9-10 - October 1934 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Should the textile workers take matters into their own hands their line of action would be in the direction of aggressive militant mass picketing and the formation of regular textile armies, divided into squads led by captains elected by the workers.
		There is no doubt but the workers would respond if really called on to fight and such a move would be a tremendous step forward as much in broadening and deepening the strike as it would be in taking the strike out of the control of the agents of the employers.
		The strike should raise as one of its most important demands the slogan: Unemployment insurance, and thus the present general strike would be the preparation for a general national strike throughout the country for unemployment insurance.
	www.weisbord.org /FourNineTen.htm (13421 words)

	"Treated Like Slaves": Textile Workers Write to Washington in the 1930s and 1940s
		The 1934 textile strike failed to bring the transformation in work conditions and social relations that the strikers had hoped to win and was widely considered a devastating defeat for Labor.
		An important window into the persistence of poor conditions in the mills is the letters that the mill workers (both male and female) wrote to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and other government officials describing their plight.
		None of the women workers know what they are making, until they draw their pay check at each weekend, and their wages is not sufficient for them to live on.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/125 (1141 words)

	The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama
		Though certainly much larger than the battles fought in the same year by Toledo auto workers, Minneapolis truckers and warehousemen, and San Francisco dockworkers, the "great" textile strike seems not to have exerted as important an influence on the subsequent evolution of industrial unionism as these otherwise less imposing challenges to employer hegemony.
		Yet if it fails to disclose factual information about the strike that most scholars don't already know, the book commends itself to the attention of even the most knowledgeable historians on the basis of what Salmond says they ought to bear in mind if the conflict is to be properly understood.
		Of course Salmond's determination to interpret the 1934 textile strike as a collection of related but never identical episodes of labor conflict is hardly cost free.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0652.shtml (615 words)

	A History of Cotton Mills and the Industrial Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		New England mill workers in the 1880s, as cotton mills began to move southward, laughed at the thought of cotton mills moving to the South to be operated by "ignorant farmers and squirrel hunters." The laughter was premature; it would later backfire soundly.
		Textile schools had already opened or were in late planning stages at universities in the three Piedmont states, Clemson College in South Carolina in 1898, North Carolina A. College in 1899, and Georgia School of Technology in 1899.
		The mill had survived a six-week strike earlier in the year, and Ford was threatening to take its business elsewhere should the mill be struck a second time within five months.14 Fortunately, the nation-wide strike was short-lived, and the mill survived to continue operations until closing its doors in 1942.
	narvellstrickland1.tripod.com /cottonmillhistory2/index1.html (16803 words)

	Bread Upon the Waters: Ch. 17
		When workers in these set-ups attempted in the NRA period to form legitimate labor unions, and sought entry into the A F of L, they bumped their heads against so many craft unions that they became confused and often disgusted.
		I thought of the millions of workers, and potential members, they represented of industries that were consistently kept outside, and their votes: auto, 86 votes; cement, 7; aluminum, 1; rubber, 28; radio, refrigeration, and television, 75; steel, 86; lumber, with no representation÷and I felt a pang in my heart.
		I could not accept his vocal concern for the mass-production workers as altruistic; the economic condition of the miners' union was an ample motive for his demand for the broad spreading of industrial unionism.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /anarchist_archives/bright/pesotta/chap17.htm (3678 words)

	Film and Photo League Filmography compiled by Russell Campbell and William Alexander
		PASSAIC STRIKE, 1927: Compilation of footage obtained of the Passaic, N.J., textile workers’ strike.
		Footage of the 1931 miners’ strike led by the N.M.U. in Pennsylvania, Ohio, W. Virginia and Kentucky.
		Dramatized documentary on the life and struggles of taxi drivers, based on the 1934 strike end acted by members of the Taxicab Drivers Union and the Theatre Union Studio.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC14folder/FPhotoFilogy.html (1975 words)

	Labor in the 1930s Bibliography \| Subject Index
		Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990.
		Insurgent Workers: Studies in the Origins of Industrial Unionism on the East and West Coast Docks and in the South During the 1930s.
		Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s.
	newdeal.feri.org /laborbib/subject.htm (3676 words)

	Martin Glaberman: Walter Reuther, "Social Unionist" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Involved in Lichtenstein’s failure to note the importance of this action is his tendency to exaggerate the ability of GM and the other auto corporations to use their financial and industrial weight to short circuit labor militancy.
		It was a response to the radical working class victories of 1934, a socialist-led strike at Toledo Auto-Lite, a Trotskyist-led strike of Teamsters in Minneapolis-St. Paul, a Communist-led strike on the San Francisco waterfront.
		This is the basis of the welfare state, the attempt to appease the workers with the fruits of labor when they seek satisfaction in the work itself.” [2] The problem, however, is that this involves a contradiction.
	www.marxists.org /archive/glaberman/1996/xx/reuther.htm (2152 words)

	A Time-line of the Industrial Workers of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		* 3,000 IWW sawmill workers strike in Portland, OR;
		* Sacco & Vanzetti Murdered—IWW strikes for Sacco and Vanzetti in Colorado.
		* Part-time workers strike at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
	www.marxists.org /history/usa/unions/iww/timeline.htm (3816 words)

	loray mill strike - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		THE STORY OF THE LORAY MILL STRIKE GASTONIA 1929 THE STORY OF THE LORAY MILL STRIKE JOHN A. SALMOND The University...Gastonia 1929: the story of the Loray Mill strike / by John A. Salmond.
		Aspects of Modernization in the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 169 11.
		It came on the heels of the strike of the New York Fur Workers in which...who had become deeply involved in the strike of the Passaic textile workers, which...
	www.questia.com /search/loray-mill-strike (909 words)

	Georgia State University Library - Special Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The National Domestic Workers Union Records, 1965-1979, is a collection of an organization founded in Atlanta in 1968 by Dorothy Bolden to help women engaged in household work.
		Videotaped interviews and transcripts used in the production of the film Uprising of 34, documenting the 1934 nationwide textile workers' strike, are a wealth of information on women as activists, women's work, and women's home life during the first half of the 20th century.
		Also in the University Archives are two volumes of records (1934 - 1964) of the Georgia State College Woman's Club, founded by Evening School of Commerce faculty wives, and various memorabilia from the Olympic Woman exhibit, a cultural component of the 1996 Olympic Games.
	www.library.gsu.edu /spcoll/Guides/womguide.htm (1089 words)

	PRIMETIME LABOR TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As families across Chicago celebrate this Labor Day weekend, there will be one place on local television where working people will tell their own stories.
		Primetime Labor tv will be hosted by Labor Beat co-producer William Jenkins, Teamsters for a Democratic Union member, and Clif Brown, co-host of the WLUW radio show Labor Express.
		The Uprising of '34, a look at the 1934 Southern textile workers' strike, directed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Susanne Rostock.
	www.labournet.net /world/9908/chicltv.html (316 words)

	research
		The latter, depicting the modern industrial worker at a historical crossroad, offended the sponsors, who ordered that the work be halted.
		In a few days, at least 300,000 workers had left their jobs in every textile manufacturing state from New England to the Deep South.
		In size and overall violence, this strike was the largest in American history.
	studentweb.providence.edu /~praub/research.html (1848 words)

	IALHI News Service: American Textile Strike of 1934 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		IALHI News Service: American Textile Strike of 1934
		Some mills achieving universal membership even while others remained completely nonunion.
		Again, Irons concludes that the difference reflected "the divided mindset among southern manufacturers about how to respond to Section 7(a) [of the NIRA]..." Many mills "brazenly ignored 7(a), others did not attempt to interfere with union organizing; some even explicitly recognized their workers' unions" (p.
	www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0205_1.html (1417 words)

	Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Manuscripts - Collections by Subject - Journalism
		Nancy Hale (1908-88), known primarily for her fiction, Hale also worked as a reporter at Vogue, Vanity Fair, and, briefly in 1934, the New York Times.
		Especially well-documented in her papers (1850-1989) are two strikes she covered, the Gastonia Textile Workers strike in 1929 and the Harlan County Miners strike of 1931.
		Papers (1950-1992) include correspondence and a complete set of her columns "Peace and the People" written for the Grove City (PA), Reporter Herald and Farm and Dairy (Salem, Ohio).
	www.smith.edu /libraries/libs/ssc/subjournalism.html (594 words)

	Monthly Review November 1996 Martin Glaberman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When local people complained, the union administration would tell them that they should have known better than to allow the time study in the first place-this in a period when the shop floor power of workers were being eroded by growing bureaucratization.
		This is the basis of the welfare state, the attempt to appease the workers with the fruits of labor when they seek satisfaction in the work itself."2 The problem, however, is that this involves a contradiction.
		Reuther's legacy (although surely not just his) is the "give it up before they take it away" theory of struggle.
	www.monthlyreview.org /1196glab.htm (2229 words)

	Blacklisted Journalist EMAIL PAGE,Portside,Kim Scipes,Carl Davidson,terrorism,The Far Left,September 11,U.S imperialism
		I think this has largely been true in times like 1917-1919 (mass campaigns to organize packinghouse and steel workers), 1934 (city-wide general strikes in San Francisco, Toledo and Minneapolis, plus a national textile workers strike), and in the Civil Rights and anti-Viet Nam war periods.
		That's not to rationalize their attacks on the World Trade Center, or to dismiss the tremendous casualties (which means losses for survivors).
		I type over 65 words per minute and have years of experience---and having had my unemployment expire on me, and not even being able to get an interview for jobs that paid less than my last one, I am facing economic problems that are much more real than any potential terrorist attack.
	www.bigmagic.com /pages/blackj/column67m6.html (1749 words)

	Tennessee Association of Museums Events
		Through interviews with legendary Blues musicians, this program explores the historic role of Beale Street as a social and entertainment hub for rural African Americans of the mid-south, as an environment in which young musicians apprenticed, and as a catalyst for taking the popularity of Blues musicians beyond the neighborhood.
		Comprehensive in scope and rich in perspective, this feature examines the enormous, violent textile workers' strike in the south in 1934.
		The story of the strike is drawn broadly in the context of regional labor differences, racial differences among textile workers, and the consequences of mill village life.
	www.tnmuseums.org /Events.htm (4992 words)

	3rd National Convention of CofC in Raleigh, NC 8/13-15/99
		This gathering of several hundred socialists, labor organizers, local community activists and progressive performers became the high point of the 3
		National Convention of the Committees of Correspondence and commemorated the Wilmington 10 case 25 years ago, the historical textile workers strike of 1934 and the 20
		Even though Angela Davis, who was to be the big draw, got stuck at the airport, Manning Marable and other political organizers more than satisfied the audience with political analysis and inspiration.
	www.redandgreen.org /convention.htm (605 words)

	Labor in the 1930s Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Notes: Recounts the 1934 General Strike in San Francisco that, together with the Toledo Auto-Lite strike, the "Great Uprising of '34" in the South, and the Teamsters' strike in the Upper Midwest, heralded the coming of the CIO and witnessed the emergence of Harry Bridges as a major U.S. labor leader.
		We would very much appreciate any further notes regarding this work.
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	newdeal.feri.org /laborbib/675.htm (100 words)

	Amazon.ca: The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	1929 - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		...STORY OF THE LORAY MILL STRIKE GASTONIA 1929 THE STORY OF THE LORAY MILL STRIKE...Frontispiece: Ella May Wiggins, September 1929 Courtesy Australian Picture Library...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Salmond, John A. Gastonia 1929: the story of the Loray Mill strike...
		by Douglas Craig The Voice...Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934.
		By Vincent J. Roscigno and William...textile mill workers movement, beginning in 1929 and culminating in the general textile...
	www.questia.com /search/1929 (1676 words)

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