LABOR: War of Attrition

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At Pineville, 200 workers went back to their looms and spindles, claiming that they had been "starved out" by the union. Into Pineville only $150 had been sent to sustain 150 families during three weeks of strike.

Around Gastonia, strikers were evicted from company houses,...

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