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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 by 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
Format	Newspapers
Voyager Number	v1232
Collection or Series Title	Huntsville Daily Register
Box Number	45.0137
Catalog Record	http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1232
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This 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.
Digital Format	240 dpi tiff
Project Name	Alabama History Education Initiative
Digital image reproduction form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.pdf
Upload batch	Malone (text) 2010.06-A
Date created	2010-07-27

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