Category: Unions

See what a break that was? We got the 40 hour week

In 1934 Cherokee workers joined textile workers across the South in a strike known as Uprising of 1934. Knoxville workers stayed out 8 weeks.

The stage was set for one of the first, if not THE first, strikes in the Southern textile field. March 12, 1929. 800 employees.

Participant Christine Galliher discusses the plant strike at North American Rayon Corp in Johnson City, TN on March 12, 1929.

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