Martyr of Loray Mill

<p> Union organizer and balladeer Ella May became a martyr for workers nationwide when she was murdered on her way to a union meeting in Gastonia North Carolina at age 28. A mother of nine and bookkeeper for the communist-led National Textile Workers Union May worked to organize fellow mill workers in Gaston County. Her efforts to organize black workers--along with her brash outspoken manner--incensed the local community and she was shot by an anti-union vigilante group on September 14 1929.</p><p> Written by her great-granddaughter this book tells Ella May's story including her involvement in the Loray Mill Strike the largest communist-led strike on American soil. Her most famous ballad Mill Mother's Lament reveals her motivation: It is for our little children.</p>