he success of the Loray Mill strike.
             South Carolina's, as well as Virginia's industry executives were fearing the spread of this push for unionization would spread across North Carolina's borders and into their states. Their fears were not unwarranted. The last major labor battle in textile south was in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina between pro-union laborers and the J. P. Stevens Company. Worker there joined the TWU (Textile Workers Union) and then merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union of America to form ACTWU (the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union of America) creating a union giant with over 400,000 members. Soon afterward nearly all of the south's textile corporations were unionized. From 1929 when the TWUA was first formed, to 1976 when the ACWU and the TWUA merged, over 140,000 textile workers had joined the union. Why did the union gain support so rapidly? There were several factors that led to the expedience of expansion.
             First of all, leadership was a major issue in the growth o
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