Author: Georgianna, Daniel with Roberta Hazen Aaronson (signed by author),
Title: The Strike of '28.
Description: New Bedford, MA, Spinner Publications, 1993. 1st prntg. VG PB 7-1/2 by 10 inch pages. Signed by Georgiana. The textile industry in New Bedford and Fall River typified the 1920s amidst growing productivity while. manufacturers pub profits elsewhere, not not tge 35 thousand workers. makeing New England's largest strike of the 20's. Drastic wagecuts took place among local merchants but local conservative crafts clashed with the militant industrial union sponsored by the Cmmmunist party made it the largest strike of the 1920s. It was a time when the textile industry gave way to the might of southern competitors. Signed by author on fep.

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