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Behind the Southern Textile Strikes
Bonner, Marion | October 2, 1929 issue

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On July 11, when the school began its session of six weeks at Burnsville, North Carolina, about six hundred and fifty men and women joined the United Textile Workers Union and went on strike against conditions in the Marion Manufacturing Co. Some of the strike leaders, knowing that the Southern Summer School was teaching economics, public speaking, and health, brought seven girls over the forty miles of beautiful mountain road to the school. The small group of women from the Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry is playing an important part in the fight against economic slavery in the South.

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STRIKES & lockouts -- Textile industry; MARION Manufacturing Co.; TEXTILE workers; PUBLIC speaking; SLAVERY; NORTH Carolina; UNITED States
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