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19072
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Labor strife during the pre-Depression era was celebrated by contemporary artists through literature, song, and plays. While not as preserved or remembered as literature and song, plays are an important artistic medium for remembering labor strife such as the 1929 Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, NC. Script details for two such plays, Strike! and Strike Song have recently surfaced as current interest has increased.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 18, 2009,
p51-52, f
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16323
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The songs composed and performed by the striking textile mill hands in Gastonia between April and September 1929 not only increase our knowledge of events and issues the strikers thought important, but when reconstructed in their referential richness and performative intensity, these strike songs reveal processes that underlay the discrete events and structured the course of the whole strike.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 30 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 1982,
p87-98
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21606
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The Loray Mill in Gastonia was one of the largest textile mills in the country. In 1929, one of the most violent strikes ever erupted there, beginning a bitter struggle between textile factory owners and workers. Employees at the Loray Mill walked off the job when Fred Beal, who had been organizing a strike for more pay and a 40-hour week, was fired. Violence quickly broke out and in the ensuing weeks Police Chief W.O. Aderholt and strike leader Ella May Wiggins were killed. In the end, the union lost and the workers were blacklisted from working at local mills.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 9, Feb 2014,
p42-44, 46, 48-51, il, por
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8905
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In 1929, the city of Gastonia erupted into a bitter struggle between textile factory owners and workers. Employees at the Loray Mill walked off the job when Fred Beal, who had been organizing a strike, was fired. Violence quickly broke out and in the ensuing weeks Police Chief W. O. Aderholt and strike leader Ella May Wiggins were killed. During the night the one-hundred black cars roamed Gastonia's streets looking for strikers to assault. A trial was held regarding Aderholt's murder. Several of those convicted of the crime fled to Russia seeking asylum. The Loray strike is a tragic episode in Gastonia's history.
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9307
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The first cotton mill appeared in Gastonia in 1816 and by 1925, Gastonia was the cotton mill capital of the world. The biggest of these, the Loray Mill, began reducing wages resulting in a strike beginning on April 1, 1929. Immediately violence broke out, resulting in shoot outs, fights, and the killing on the police chief on June 7th. A trial, which found seven defendants guilty and sent them to jail, did not begin until August.\r\n
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16484
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In 1929 workers at the Loray Mills in Gastonia, North Carolina walked out on strike. In retaliation, the mill owners evicted strikers from the mill villages and cut off their credit to the company store. Tent colonies sprang up, armed strikers stalked the streets, and violence spread.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Dec 1964,
p20-24
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