Loray Mill strike
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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 in attaining its goals of better working c
An International Labor Defense magazine depicting the sixteen prisoners
The Loray Mill in 2013
Fred Beal
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Fred Erwin Beal was an American labor-union organizer whose critical reflections on his work and travel in the Soviet Union divided left-wing and liberal opinion. In 1929 he had been a cause célèbre w
Loray Mill strike
…who made up a considerable percentage of the workers, were rarely home to raise their children. Upon hearing about the conditions in the Loray Mill, Fred Erwin Beal of the National Textile Workers Union (NTWU), a communist labor union, as well as a member of the Trade Union Unity League, began focusing his attention…
Beal 1925
Beal testifies before the Dies Committee, October 18, 1939