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In Honea Path, 300 union members – both men and women – gathered to protest low wages and poor working conditions exacerbated by the Depression. The strikes were ordered on Labor Day, three days prior.
The Chiquola Mill Massacre, also known locally as Bloody Thursday, was the violent dispersal of a picket line of striking workers outside the Chiquola textile mill in Honea Path, South Carolina.
Claude Cannon, Lee Crawford, Ira Davis, E. M. “Bill” Knight, Maxie Peterson, C. R. Rucker and Thomas Yarborough all celebrated Labor Day for the last time on September 3, 1934 in the small town of Honea Path, South Carolina. Three days later six were dead and one was mortally wounded. The general textile workers strike … Continue reading
4 wrz 2012 · Claude Cannon, Lee Crawford, Ira Davis, E. M. “Bill” Knight, Maxie Peterson, C. R. Rucker and Thomas Yarborough all celebrated Labor Day for the last time on September 3, 1934 in the small town of Honea Path, South Carolina. Three days later six were dead and one was mortally wounded.
12 lut 2016 · Amid the Great Depression and a national labor strike, workers in the small Upstate town of Honea Path descended upon the town’s cloth-making mill in September 1934 to protest low wages and...
10 wrz 2020 · This archive piece highlights a deadly strike that took place at Chiquola Mill on Sept. 6, 1934. Then mayor and mill superintendent Dan Beacham even had a machine gun mounted to the top of the...
The Chiquola Mill Massacre, also known locally as Bloody Thursday, was the violent dispersal of a picket line of striking workers outside the Chiquola textile mill in Honea Path, South Carolina.
