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Communism in Southern Cotton Mills
Blanshard, Paul | April 24, 1929 issue

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Gaston County, once the greatest corn-whiskey producing county below the Mason and Dixon line, has become through fifty years of mutation the South's leading center of combed yarn-and labor discontent. It is the infection-point for a series of strikes that have aroused the whole Piedmont section, involving a dozen mills and 15,000 workers. The strikes are partly the result of systematic agitation and partly the spontaneous revolt of overburdened workers against the lowest wages and. longest hours in American factories. The organized strikes are led by the new National Textile Workers Union which was formed by Communists last summer to challenge the American Federation of Labor in the textile industry.

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TEXTILE industry; LABOR disputes; TEXTILE fabrics; TEXTILE workers; LABOR; WAGES -- Textile workers
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