NRLA or not, the mill owners had already hired replacement workers and the strike leaders remained black-balled even after the NRLA. The message received was loud and clear. Don’t stick your neck out calling for a union or it will get cut off.
Heh, I just remembered the problem with asking 2 questions at once is only the 2nd one will get answered. This strike is intriguing to me because it seems to go against the idea that urban industrial forces were indirectly responsible for the Democratic schism and subsequent transformation. If these forces might have been harnessed in the South, the interesting thing is why they were not, while they were in the North.
