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Canada and the United States

John A. Salmond. The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 295. $37.50.

On August 30, 1934, the vice-president of the United Textile Workers Union (UTW), Francis Gorman, ordered the cotton textile local unions scattered from Maine through the coastal New England states, the mid-Atlantic states, and the southern textile crescent ending in Alabama to strike on September 1, with workers in wool, silk, rayon, and synthetic yarn to soon join them. Gorman, the UTW's de facto leader, through the summer of 1934 had led a tense confrontation with the textile owners and the National Recovery Administration's (NRA) labor relations board (known as the Bruere Board after its chairman, Robert Bruere). The UTW saw the Bruere Board as a management-dominated entity that perpetuated the anti-union tradition of the industry. It was ready to strike for the end of the hated stretch-out and of widespread NRA code violations, for improved working conditions, and for union recognition and collective bargaining.

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