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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.
In 1994, George Stoney led the production of a documentary on the 1934 textile workers' strike called the "Uprising of '34". The film prominently features the Chiquola Mill Massacre. Public screenings of the film spurred conversations in Honea Path that led to the dedication of a small stone marker for the fallen workers in nearby Dogwood Park ...
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.
The plant's first spinning unit opened in 1917 and employed 1,000 workers, mostly women. [3] The company immediately began construction on a second unit under the same roof as the first, which was completed in 1919 and increased the workforce to 1,700. [3] A reservoir, settling basin, and water filter house were constructed around this time as ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lynchburg, Virginia, Tobacco Workers' Strike occurred. [18] 1883 (United States) Molder's Lockout began. [18] 1884 (United States) The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, forerunner of the American Federation of Labor, passed a resolution stating that "8 hours shall constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886."
Carbon County Strike; Pacific Electric Railway strike of 1903; 1904 573,815 1905 [3] 302,434 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike; 1906 Not measured United Railroads Strike of 1906 by IBEW1245 in San Francisco; 1906 GE sit-down strike (Schenectady, NY) 1907 1907 San Francisco streetcar strike; Boston garment worker strike; 1907 Skowhegan textile ...