| Summary: | This article discusses the involvement of transient union members in Southern mills during the nationwide textile strike: "Flying squadrons are closing down mills in the south and east when there is a small minority of union operatives in any plant expressing a willingness to join the strike, the mill is closed by force. In this manner the strike is rapidly spreading and mills are being closed where there are only a few union representatives." The article quotes a New York correspondent, who reports that even when the majority of mill employees want to continue working, a few workers with "strong character and lots of guts" can force businesses to close; he uses Gaston County, North Carolina, as an example: "'What difference does it make that a majority of Gaston county workers prefer to work if the union, by bold action, can close every one of the 100 mills in that county? A closed mill is a union victory...With the Gaston county mills closed, every striker in Gaston county is free to operate against mills in other centers, just as they are doing. Certainly these raiders are acting illegally. They have been guilty of trespass and malicious destruction of property...No one has been injured as yet, but that was because there has been no opposition to the raiders. It has been a surrender, and that is the very word that the manufacturers in Gaston county were using today.'"
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