"Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills."

"Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills."

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, t...

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"Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills."
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Labor and laboring classes--Alabama; Labor and laboring classes--Southern States; Labor movement--Alabama; Labor movement--Southern States; Strikes and lockouts--Alabama; Strikes and lockouts--Southern States
description 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.'"
spelling Q0000024988 - Q0000024989Q24988 - Q24989"Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills."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.'"1934 September 71934-09-071930-1939Labor and laboring classes--Alabama; Labor and laboring classes--Southern States; Labor movement--Alabama; Labor movement--Southern States; Strikes and lockouts--Alabama; Strikes and lockouts--Southern StatesTextNewspapersHuntsville Daily Register45.0137v1232Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130EnglishThis material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.240 PPI TIFFhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/3450
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