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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This did not silence protest. Tories demanded to know: 1) when Madam Perkins had ever declared a strike "unjustified"; 2) when, politics being what they are, she or the Labor Board ever would do so. The Illinois Manufacturers Association protested thus to Administrator Hopkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Strikers' Stomachs | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...belt, the Loray Mill of Manville Jenckes Corp. announced that its employes had petitioned to continue work. At Charlotte, N. C., union leaders held what amounted to an old-fashioned Southern camp-meeting, with mighty prayers for success. In Paterson, N. J., silk textile workers announced that they would strike in spite of the fact that their contract with manufacturers forbids a walkout without first consulting the Industry's Industrial Relations Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Call To Idleness | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

Such were some of last week's reports on the eve of a national textile strike (TIME, Sept. 3). The working population of two San Franciscos would approximate the number of persons engaged in the textile industry. But two San Franciscos would occupy only a few square miles, whereas the major textile area of the U. S. stretches from Maine to Georgia. Of cotton textile workers alone North Carolina has 92,000, Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Call To Idleness | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Call To Idleness | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Call To Idleness | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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