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Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930's (U of Illinois Press, 1961), strong on clothing, teamsters, steel, meat packing. online; Roscigno, Vincent J. The voice of southern labor: radio, music, and textile strikes, 1929-1934 (2004) online; Taft, Philip. The AF of L. from the Death of Gompers to the Merger (Harper ...
The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 [4] [2] [1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike; Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912; 1912 1912 Lawrence "Bread & Roses" textile strike; 1912 New York City waiters' strike; Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912; Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912; Chicago Newspaper strike of 1912; 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike; 1913 Colorado ...
Textile Strike 2 Textile workers strike (1934): Guards killed two picketers. September 6, 1934 Honea Path, SC Textile Strike 7 Chiquola Mill Massacre, part of the Textile workers strike (1934): Deputies stationed in and around Chiquola Mill opened fire on picketing textile workers with pistols and shotguns. They killed 7 and wounded about 30.
Labor strikes grew to large scale, especially in California and Minnesota. Textile workers launched the largest strike in national history in 1934. [48] Senator Huey Long in Louisiana and radio priest Charles Coughlin, had both been active Roosevelt supporters in 1932. They now broke away and set up national appeals to millions of supporters ...
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In Houston, New Orleans, and other major docks along the Gulf Coast, strikes and other labor conflict had been a regular annual occurrence through the 1930s. [1] The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike of the previous summer, involving workers from both the ILA and the International Seamen's Union, had developed into a general strike in San Francisco, with encouraging results for dock workers.