National Textile Workers Union

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The National Textile Workers Union was a radical labor organization in the United States, closely associated with the Communist Party, that sought to organize and lead militant strikes among Southern textile workers in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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National Textile Workers Union canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf labor union
trade union
activity collective bargaining
labor agitation
strike leadership
union organizing
affiliation Trade Union Unity League NERFINISHED
characteristic Communist-led
left-wing
militant
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolutionReason decline of Communist-led dual unions in the 1930s
goal build industrial unionism in textiles
improve wages and working conditions
lead militant strikes
organize Southern textile workers
historicalContext Great Depression NERFINISHED
interwar period
ideology communism
industry textile industry
movement American labor movement
labor movement
textile workers movement
notableFor Communist Party influence in Southern labor organizing
attempts to organize Black and white textile workers together
militant strike tactics
opposedBy anti-communist groups
local authorities in the American South
textile mill owners
politicalAlignment Communist International NERFINISHED
Communist Party USA NERFINISHED
region American South NERFINISHED
Southern United States
sector manufacturing
successor mainstream industrial unions in the textile industry
timePeriod early 1930s
late 1920s

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Loray Mill strike of 1929 organizer National Textile Workers Union