Ola Delight Smith
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Ola Delight Lloyd Smith was an American telegrapher, journalist, and labor activist.
Ola Delight Smith. Source: Railroad Telegrapher, May 1911, 1018
The 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike was a labor strike involving several hundred textile workers from the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The strike, which
Ola Delight Smith
…Labor's delegate to the Southern Conference on Women and Child Labor. In 1914, Atlanta textile workers belonging to the United Textile Workers Union went on strike against the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills to protest poor working conditions and the employment of children in the mills. Ola Delight Smith became involved…
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills facility, 2015
At the time of the strike, children represented approximately 12 percent of the mills' workforce.