{"id":47738,"date":"2022-01-23T09:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=47738"},"modified":"2022-01-23T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T14:20:01","slug":"history-feature-breaking-generations-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/communities\/history-feature-breaking-generations-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"History Feature: Breaking Generations of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47740\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47740\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Marion-Mill-1910.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"571\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marion Manufacturing Co. All photos courtesy of McDowell County Historical Society<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>The Marion Massacre<\/h1>\n<p>By Lauren Stepp<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Marion, Megan Stevens remembers her family members and neighbors whispering about that bloody day. She remembers them shaking their heads, eyes downcast and doleful. When Stevens pressed for more information, she was hushed. \u201cIt ain\u2019t something anyone thinks about or talks about if they can help it,\u201d says Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>But when she went off to study history at college, Stevens unveiled her town\u2019s gory past. She dug into archives and interviewed locals, breaking generations of silence. Her hometown\u2019s 93-year-old secret\u2014the Marion Massacre\u2014was a secret no more.<\/p>\n<p>The massacre took place on the morning of October 2, 1929. Months earlier, mill workers at Marion Manufacturing had unionized. They were desperately overworked and underpaid. The post-war recession forced mills to cut expenses by adopting a strategy known as the \u201cstretch-out.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47741\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47741\" class=\"wp-image-47741\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Mill-Employees.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Mill-Employees.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Mill-Employees.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Mill-Employees.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Mill-Employees.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Mill-Employees.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-810x523.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-Mill-Employees.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-1140x736.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mill employees<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Essentially, weavers were ordered to manage an entire room of mechanized looms by themselves. This doubled and sometimes even tripled workloads.<\/p>\n<p>Efficiency techniques aside, \u201cthe mill workers were already teetering on the brink of rebellion due to their living conditions,\u201d Stevens writes in her graduate thesis, A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929.<\/p>\n<p>Marion, like other southern mill villages, was a \u201ccompany-owned town.\u201d Workers bought groceries at the company store and lived in derelict homes rented from the mill for 20 cents per room. In some homes, up to 12 people shared four rooms. Without running water and private outhouses, tuberculosis and other diseases spread like wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate for a better life, workers went on strike on July 11, 1929. The next two months were a flurry of arrests and evictions. The strike ended on September 11 when the mill agreed to \u201coperate on a 55-hour-per-week schedule.\u201d The mill also agreed not to discriminate against union members. But when managers failed to rehire 114 unionized workers, tensions reached a crescendo.<\/p>\n<p>On October 2, likely early in the morning, an unknown number of workers flooded out of the mill. They were met by Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his 11 deputies. Shots were fired by the police, leaving three men dead and three fatally injured. The hospital refused to care for the injured men, noting that the mill\u2019s insurance wasn\u2019t responsible for strike-related expenses. Those three men died.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-47742\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-1-Marion-Mill.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-1-Marion-Mill.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-1-Marion-Mill.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-1-Marion-Mill.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-1-Marion-Mill.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-1-Marion-Mill.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-810x530.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/History-1-Marion-Mill.-Photo-courtesy-of-McDowell-County-Historical-Society-1140x746.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Looking back, Stevens understands why Marion residents stayed quiet about the massacre. Even after 93 years, there\u2019s still shame. Some old-timers feel shameful about the union presence, which was often associated with communism. Others feel shameful that they didn\u2019t fight harder for their neighbors who were murdered in cold blood. \u201cIt all boils down to a need to cover up this event,\u201d says Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>While studying at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Stevens focused her graduate work on the massacre because her relatives worked at Marion Manufacturing in the 1920s. But she also wanted to remember the strike because \u201cit\u2019s a defining Appalachian event,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a micro-revolution that showed the resilience and determination of the people, and the drive to fight for what\u2019s right even in the face of insurmountable odds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more about the Marion Massacre, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/McDowellCountyHistoricalSociety.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDowellCountyHistoricalSociety.weebly.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Marion, Megan Stevens remembers her family members and neighbors whispering about that bloody day. She remembers them shaking their heads, eyes downcast and doleful. 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