When Southern Labor Stirs

When Southern Labor Stirs

Labor unrest in the south in 1929
Textile Industry

Illustrated from photographs, plates. Labor unrest in the south in 1929, with chapters devoted to each of the strikes in Elizabethton, Tennessee, Gastonia and Marion, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia.

Tom Tippett, a labor journalist, included the Gastonia story in his 1931 book on a rash of strikes that occurred in textile towns all over the Southern piedmont in 1929-1930. The four parts of the book are listed individually in the Battle copy list as "Pamphlets"

Tom Tippett

Southern Appalachian Collection

Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith

1931

Pamphlet

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