LABOR Struggle in Dixie Hymning the gospel of unionism with tent-revival fervor, 900 millworkers in Henderson, N.C. (pop. 14,500) last week observed the first anniversary of their strike against the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills with hand-clapping choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Solidarity Forever. Carrying U.S. and Confederate flags, joined by hundreds of gift-bearing sympathizers, members of Locals 578 and 584, Textile Workers Union of America, jammed Henderson's National Guard armory, raised the rafters with well-tuned pentecostal voices and stood reverently as Mrs. Nannie Hughes, a millworker for 45 years, besought the...
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