• 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...
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    The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the...
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    unions in the country. The textile strike of 1934 was a nationwide three-week effort by a million textile workers, especially in North Carolina, South...
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    The 1926 Passaic textile strike was a work stoppage by over 15,000 woolen mill workers in and around Passaic, New Jersey, over wage issues in several...
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  • The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in...
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  • Thumbnail for 1922 New England Textile Strike
    New England Textile Strike was a strike led by members of the United Textile Workers of America (UTW) principally in the U.S. states of Massachusetts...
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    US Textile Workers' Strike of 1934 Strikes in the United States in the 1930s Harry Bridges History of the west coast of North America List of worker deaths...
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  • The United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (1934–1983), also known by acronyms including UHCMW, U.H.C. & M.W.I.U. and UHC & MWIU...
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    Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the predecessor organizations...
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  • portal United States portal List of strikes List of striking US workers by year Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor (1973-01-01). "Analysis of Work...
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  • Chiquola Mill Massacre (category United Textile Workers of America)
    dispersal of a picket line of striking workers outside the Chiquola textile mill in Honea Path, South Carolina. The strike was part of the textile workers' strike...
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  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) for the allegiance of textile workers across the northeastern United States. Generally opposed to strikes as a means of solving...
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    The Workers Party of the United States (WPUS) was established in December 1934 by a merger of the American Workers Party (AWP) led by A.J. Muste and the...
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  • Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States,...
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    the United Rubber Workers of America and United Automobile Workers adopted the sitdown strike as a means for demanding unionization of factories, achieving...
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  • Thumbnail for Loray Mill strike
    The Loray Mill strike of 1929 in Gastonia, North Carolina, was a notable strike action in the labor history of the United States. Though largely unsuccessful...
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    Paterson silk strike was a work stoppage involving silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey. The strike involved demands for establishment of an eight-hour...
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    the IWW organized a strike of more than twenty thousand textile workers, and by 1917 the Agricultural Workers Organization (AWO) of the IWW claimed a hundred...
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    In 1934, the Communist League of America merged with the American Workers Party led by A. J. Muste, forming the Workers Party of the United States.: 775–778 ...
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  • the United Garment Workers. The roots of this conflict date to the 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike, when a spontaneous strike by a handful of women...
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  • circular. 3 July 1835 (United States) Textile workers, many of whom were children of Irish descent, launched the 1835 Paterson textile strike in the silk mills...
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  • Thumbnail for 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike
    Little Falls textile strike was a labor strike involving workers at two textile mills in Little Falls, New York, United States. The strike began on October...
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    List of US labor strikes by size List of miners' strikes List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes Streetcar strikes in the United States Strikes...
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  • Area, California; Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington 1934Textile workers strike (1934) 1934 – Detroit World Series riot, October 10, Detroit, Michigan...
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  • Thumbnail for 1907 Skowhegan textile strike
    Skowhegan textile strike was a labor dispute between approximately 225 mill workers and the owners of the Marston Worsted Mill in Skowhegan, Maine, United States...
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    The Pullman Strike was two interrelated strikes in 1894 that shaped national labor policy in the United States during a period of deep economic depression...
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    response to prisoner strike activity or in anticipation of it. The IWW also organized workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In May 2020 the...
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    The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, or the Railway Shopmen's Strike, was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States. Launched on July...
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    was the largest strike by female American workers up to that date. Led by Clara Lemlich and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and supported...
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  • Chiquola Mill Massacre, on September 6, 1934, during the 1934 textile workers' strike in the eastern United States The Kossuth Tér Massacre, on October 25...
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