Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome?: A Guide for Friends and Family - PDF
نویسندگان: Wes Mantooth
خلاصه: Introduction“Beats 100 Speeches and 9 SermonsThrowed In”In early 1929, two organizers for the American Communist Party’s recentlyestablished National Textile Worker’s Union (NTWU) journeyed southby motorcycle to investigate the potential for beginning organizing workamong textile workers in the Piedmont region (Draper 9). 1 Various inqui-ries eventually led one of these organizers, Fred Beal, to try his luck inGastonia, North Carolina, which had been described to him as key to orga-nizing the South. 2 Beal arrived in Gastonia in mid-March and, at the LorayMill, the largest in the region, “succeeded in winning over a single, localmill worker. They cautiously decided to set up a secret union local andbegin by taking in a few members only” (Draper 10). In a chain of eventswhose rapidity and magnitude took Beal by surprise, workers at the Loraymill became embroiled in a Communist-led strike that would eventuallyfocus national and even international attention on Gastonia. After Bealhad left Gastonia, the initial union inductee was fired for his organizingactivities. Several other firings followed. When Beal returned, union mem-bers—“far more militant than Beal” (Draper 11)—pushed for a factorywalkout. When the mill fired additional workers the following week, thestrike ensued. Although very few workers had actually joined the union,“a large majority of Loray’s 2,200 workers [. . . ] walked out,” protestingnot only these firings, but also their own growing frustrations about workconditions (Draper 11). They succeeded in bringing production almost toa standstill, but only for a few days.