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Includes: Textile Workers Organizing Committee. Proceedings, first constitutional convention, Textile Workers Organizing Committee, 1939, and: United Textile Workers of America. Convention proceedings, United Textile Workers of America, 1939.
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This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.