A boy who said eleven years old apparently less) and that he was a sweeper in #LorayCottonMills, #Gastonia, #N.C., during the past summer. Location: #Gastonia, #NorthCarolina.

#Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018677273/

Got asked to design a #Lego #Gastonia for #Jim #Kirkland (for a friend of his to give him).
Here is the end result.
I will now have to get the parts and build it to make sure they work, then get the parts to my friend to pass on to Jim.

Little girl, parents shot after basketball rolls into gunman's yard in Gastonia; suspect sought: police https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/gaston-county/police-search-for-suspect-after-gastonia-double-shooting/ #nomoa #uspoli #USPolitics #NorthCarolina #Gastonia

Today in Labor History April 1, 1929: Textile workers struck at the Loray Mill, in Gastonia, N.C. Textile mills started moving from New England, to the South, in the 1890s, to avoid the unions. This escalated after the 1909 Shirtwaist strike (which preceded the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire), the IWW-led Lawrence (1912) and (1913) Patterson strikes, which were led by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Big Bill Haywood and Carlo Tresca. The Gastonia strike was violent and bloody. Dozens of strikers were imprisoned. A pregnant woman, Ella Mae Wiggins, wrote and performed songs during the strike. She also lived with and organized African American workers, one of the worst crimes a poor white woman could commit in the South. The strike ended soon after goons murdered her. Woody Guthrie called Wiggins the pioneer of the protest ballad and one of the great folk song writers.

Wiley Cash wrote a wonderful novel about Ella Mae Wiggins and the Gastonia strike, “The Last Ballad.” Jess Walter wrote a really great novel about the Spokane free speech fight, featuring Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, called “The Cold Millions.” Other novels about the Gastonia strike include Sherwood Anderson’s, “Beyond Desire,” and Mary Heaton Vorse’s, “Strike!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJj65ZmjnS8

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #gastonia #loray #strike #union #EllaMayWiggins #WoodyGuthrie #novel #fiction #HisFic #IWW #TriangleShirtwaist

New on the Dinosaur Toy Blog, the 2023 Gastonia by Schleich: https://dinotoyblog.com/gastonia-schleich/

A noticeable improvement over previous year's offerings from this company.

#DinoToyBlog #Gastonia #dinosaurs #dinosaur #toys #review