United States textile workers' strike of 1934

The 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 the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days. == Background == The textile industry, once concentrated in New England with outposts in New Jersey and Philadelphia, had started moving South in the 1880s.

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