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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.
The United Textile Workers (UTW) grew from 15,000 in February 1932 to 270,000 in 1934, largely by rapid expansion into the Southern United States. [17] [18] The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to write industry standards that would address some of the worst abuses.
In 1934, the United Hatters of North America (UHNA) (formed 1896) and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (CHCMW) (formed 1901), both based in New York, ended their competition by merging to form the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW). [2] [3] [4] [5]
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The textile strike of 1934 was a nationwide three-week effort by a million textile workers, especially in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. At the same time there were local strikes in the North led by the United Textile Workers of America (UTW) of the American Federation of Labor. The Southern strike was led by the newly formed ...
The United Textile Workers of American meet and file protest against textile mills refusing to obey rulings of National Textile Labor Relations board. Horace A. Riviere (1887–1942) was an influential labor leader as the 4th Vice President of the Textile Workers Union of America [ 1 ] and head of the New England district of the United Textile ...
The Portland Woolen Mills were a wool textile manufacturer in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. By 1950, they had become the largest wool manufacturer west of Cleveland, Ohio . The origins of the factory started in Sellwood in 1901 but after a fire destroyed the mill two years later owners decided to rebuild in St. Johns.
The ACWA provided major financial support for the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, which sought to establish a new union for textile workers after the disastrous defeat of the United Textile Workers' strike in 1934. The Textile Workers Union of America, with more than 100,000 members, came out of that effort in 1939 as part of Operation Dixie.