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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.
30 sie 2010 · Seventy-five years ago—on September 6, 1934—seven workers were shot and killed and 30 others wounded at the Chiquola Mill in Honea Path, SC. It was an act that has shaped the town’s history and attitudes in ways that few could have imagined.
Seven people – Claude Cannon, Lee Crawford, Ira Davis, E. M. “Bill” Knight, Maxie Peterson, C. R. Rucker, and Thomas Yarborough – were killed in the massacre, all but one shot in the back as he tried to escape. Cannon was shot five times before he collapsed on the sidewalk. Thirty more were wounded. (Note: Only six died at the mill itself.
On this day in Southern Labor history, September 6, 1934, the Chiquola mill massacre began. During the Great Depression, Southern textile workers were hit ha...
Textile workers circled the Chiquola Mill in protest of low wages and unsafe work environments. On September 6, 1934, seven people were shot to death, with 30 other protesters wounded at the Chiquola Mill strike in Honea Path, South Carolina.
5 wrz 2024 · But mill owners and bosses sought to prevent strikers from shutting down production, meeting strikers with rifles, shotguns, dynamite, clubs and tear gas. A machine gun nest on the roof of the mill jammed, or the number of dead could have been catastrophic for the Honea Path and Belton communities.
4 wrz 2012 · Learn about the Chiquola Mill massacre of 1934, when six textile workers were killed and one was wounded during a strike. Watch a newsreel of the funeral and read a personal account of the tragedy.
