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By Kristina Horton

Union organizer and balladeer Ella may possibly turned a martyr for staff national whilst she used to be murdered on her option to a union assembly in Gastonia, North Carolina, at age 28. A mom of 9 and bookkeeper for the communist-led nationwide cloth employees Union, may perhaps labored to arrange fellow mill employees in Gaston County. Her efforts to arrange black workers—along together with her brash, outspoken manner—incensed the local people and he or she used to be shot by way of an anti-union vigilante workforce on September 14, 1929.
Written via her great-granddaughter, this e-book tells Ella May’s tale, together with her involvement within the Loray Mill Strike, the most important communist-led strike on American soil. Her most renowned ballad, “Mill Mother’s Lament,” finds her motivation: “It is for our little children.”

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