Abstract

One-Hundred Per Cent Americans on Strike

This article focuses on the strikes in South Carolina's cotton mills. Fifteen of these strikes have taken place in this Piedmont area in three weeks in protest against the stretch-out system and not one has yet been lost. These 100 per cent Americans of South Carolina are determined to fight their own battle in their own way. They will have nothing to do with the Communist leaders of the strikes in North Carolina or with any other labor organizers. Of the fifteen strikes against the system in this region in three weeks all but four have been won and the leaderless strikers have returned with flying colors. The truth is that not one of these strikes could have been won if conventional strike tactics and union organizers had been used.