Word: gormanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis J. Gorman, captain of Labor's greatest host, last week sat in Washington and counted the first week's results of his national textile strike. Of some 700,000 cotton, woolen, silk and rayon workers whom he had called to idleness, about 375,000 were "out"?because they had answered his call or because they feared to work. In the two great textile areas, New England with 225,000 workers and the mid-South with 340,000 workers, the strike was respectively about 60% and 40% effective...
Many a skirmish had been required to net Leader Gorman this result. At Warren, R. I., 1,000 strikers stormed a mill after a policeman struck a union official. At Augusta, Ga., two Enterprise Mill pickets were wounded and one killed when a policeman, trampled by strikers, fired from the ground. At Bridgeport, Pa., strikers forced entrance to a mill, broke a woman's leg. At Greenville, S. C. one man and four women were clubbed, kicked and mauled in scrimmages with deputies. At Fall River, Mass., Radical Ann Burlak. "The Red Flame,'' was forbidden to hold a meeting...
Nonetheless the new Textile Board did not despair of success, for conditions had changed during the first seven days of the strike. Mr. Gorman had won a number of successes and was more ready to make peace. Said he: "We have demonstrated that we can stop the wheels of the textile industry. . . . The mills are closed. We can keep them closed indefinitely...
Generalissimo of what may become the No. 1 strike in U. S. history was Francis Joseph Gorman. Thirty-one years ago, aged 13, young Francis arrived in the U. S. from his native Bradford, in Yorkshire. In Providence, R. I. he got a job as a sweeper in the Atlantic Mills. When he was 20 he joined his first union. Since then he has been more interested in the manufacture of labor solidarity than of textiles. In 1928 he was elected vice president of United Textile Workers, the job he still holds. After Thomas F. MacMahon, the Union...
...experience, Gorman has directed four textile strikes in the last five years. He lost the one at Marion, N. C. in 1929 because of premature attempts to organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union's six-month struggle blocked wage cuts for woolen workers. A strike among silk workers at Pawtucket, R. I. in 1933 won better wages, a reduction of the machine load per employe. Last year Francis Gorman invaded the South once more to organize cotton textile workers in Alabama. There 13,000 men struck...