Oliver Max Gardner
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Oliver Max Gardner was an American politician who served as the 57th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Democratic Party, Gardner worked in the administrat
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Gardner Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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
Oliver Max Gardner
…of Franklin D. Roosevelt and an advocate of labor rights, Gardner took a pro-business, anti-union stance in a period of labor unrest, including the Loray Mill Strike. He did, however, push through the legislature a workman's compensation law and successfully mediated a massive 1932 strike of mill workers in the…
An International Labor Defense magazine depicting the sixteen prisoners
The Loray Mill in 2013