Aftermath of the Southern Strike
Scope and Content Note: Rieve's charge that modern unionism, especially at Danville, lost the strike was somewhat justified. Public relations in a southern community disappears during a strike. There must be a strong union first. Rogin would gladly trade a national right-to-work law for a law forbidding employers to hire outside workers during a strike. He thinks the industry could have been organized with such a law. The CIO Southern Drive might have been successful under such a law; instead, many mills organized during that drive had to be struck to get a contract, and the employers simply hired outside workers and broke the strikes.