Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then began the ugliest rioting of the strike. Down on the "Social" district, a mile from Woonsocket's business centre, bore a howling mob of hoodlums, some 1,000 strong. For three hours the town was theirs. Roaring up & down streets, they smashed, splintered, looted...
Shortly after the strike began last fortnight one South Carolina mill-owner flashed the following bulletin to the Cotton-Textile Institute's New York headquarters : "Our mills will continue to operate indefinitely. They are now barricaded and ready for a state of siege." That mill-owner was a thickset, thick-spectacled young man worth about $20,000,000, who habitually wears straw-woven slippers and a beltless Norfolk jacket of 1917 vintage. His name is Elliott White Springs...
Five truckloads of fresh troops brought peace to Woonsocket at 3 a. m. Thoroughly alarmed, Governor Green sent a call for the State Assembly to meet in extraordinary session that afternoon. "This is not a textile strike," cried he. "It is a Communist insurrection...
Last week all of Elliott White Springs' seven mills with their 400,000 spindles were running full blast, as if their 7,000 non-union workers had never heard of the strike call...
...North last week got a bitter taste of the same sort of strike violence which had plagued the South week before. National Guardsmen were called out in Maine, Connecticut and in Rhode Island, where trouble hit hardest...