Word: chiquola
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...guardsmen could not be everywhere. Most deadly battle occurred at Honea Path, a mill town in South Carolina. There a flying squad of strikers tried to prevent workers from entering the Chiquola Mill. The workers argued for nearly an hour, suddenly started shooting, killed six strikers, wounded 15. Three days later a crowd of 5,000 strikers and strike sympathizers assembled on the field of battle. Amid shouts of "Amen!" and "Praise the Lord!" the Rev. James Myers of Manhattan, Industrial Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, delivered the funeral oration. "These men," he cried, "were instruments of Jesus...
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