"Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills."
File Name
Q24988 - Q24989
Item Title
"Flying Squadrons Closing Down Mills. "
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.' "
Date
1934 September 7
Sort Date
1934-09-07
Time Period
1930-1939
Subject
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
Original Format
Newspapers
Collection Title
Huntsville Daily Register
Location
45.0137
Catalog Record
http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01ALABAMA:default_scope:01ALABAMA_ALMA216243840002743
Old Catalog Number
v1232
Repository
Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
Language
English
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Digital Format
240 PPI TIFF
Project Name
Alabama History Education Initiative
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