United States textile workers' strike of 1934
| United States textile workers' strike of 1934 | |||
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"Strikers herded into concentration camps" Daily Worker September 22, 1934 | |||
| Date | Sept. 1, 1934 - Sept. 23, 1934 | ||
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| Caused by | Stretch-outs, reduction in real wages, retaliation | ||
| Goals | Union recognition in the South, a minimum wage of $20 a week, reinstatement of workers fired for union activity | ||
| Resulted in | Defeat of the union Blacklisting of many workers Long-term formation of many union locals | ||
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The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.