Workers Ready to Strike
Workers Ready to Strike
This chapter focuses on the Loray strike. Following the mass demonstration, Ellen Dawson talked about the “deplorable” conditions in which the Loray workers lived, how poorly the working women were dressed, and the poor quality of food that was available in the local stores, despite finding some of the highest prices she had ever seen. Company stores, it must be remembered, were another way mill owners took advantage of their workers. As for the workers themselves and their enthusiasm for the union, Dawson said, “she found a very fine type of womanhood” in Gastonia, pointing out that “regardless of nationality, if you agitate them sufficiently they will become full of fire.”
Keywords: workers strike, working condition, women workers, living condition, mill owners, labor union
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