1920s -- "Stretch Out" system begins at Loray Mill in Gastonia.
September, 1928 -- Superintendent Johnstone leaves Loray Mill
September, 1929 -- NTWU organized in New Bedford, New Jersey
April 1, 1929 -- NTWU organizer Fred Erwin Beal declares strike at Loray Mill.
April 2, 1929 -- Mill Superintendent Baugh presented with list of union's demands.
April 3, 1929 -- North Carolina National Guard deployed by O. Max Gardner.
April 17, 1929 -- Masked men (50-250, estimated) ransack the NTWU headquarters.
May 6, 1929 -- Evictions from mill village announced.
June 5, 1929 -- Confederate Pageant in Charlotte.
June 7,1929 -- Chief Adderholt killed.
June 9, 1929 -- Charlotte Wilder (Smith College) arrested on suspicion of unionizing.
August 26 -- Set as commencement date for trial of 14 "accused murderers."
September 9, 1929 -- one of Adderholt case jurors found to be "crazy."
September 14, 1929 -- Ella May Wiggins shot.
Sept. 25, 1929 -- Coroner's inquest on Wiggins held over until October 16.
October 20, 1929 -- Jury finds defendants guilty (seven of them)
Feb. 24, 1930 -- Wiggins trial opens.
April 21-- 22, 1930 -- NC Supreme Court hears Adderholt appeals.
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