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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.
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.
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.
2 wrz 2024 · HONEA PATH – Ninety years after one of South Carolina’s deadliest labor strikes, the remains of the mill where flaring tempers escalated into gunfire that left seven dead are set to come down.
7 wrz 2014 · Last February, an earthquake finished off the remaining remnants of the Chiquola Mill in Honea Path. For years before that quake hit, the old cotton mill, built in 1902, had stood in an...
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 ...
