Dure, Leon S., Jr

Description

Includes an article on reported connections between Winston Salem's Local 22, a worker's union of tobacco workers at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco plant, and the Communist Party. Includes commentary from anti-Communist union members, union board members, and others, "exposing" the presence of the Communist party in their organization "like a jellyfish in the noonday sun" so that "its influence may be expected to shrivel with a corresponding improvement in local labor relations." This article was published during the 1947 strike at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company -- a strike which was predominantly African American, as was most of the plant's workforce, and most of the union's members.

Record Contributed By

Winston Salem African American Archive

Record Harvested From

North Carolina Digital Heritage Center