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J.P. STEVENS
“An embarrassment to the business community.”
-Fortune magazine, 1978, describing J.P. Stevens Co.1
In 1963, Shirley Hobbes was employed at J.P. Stevens cotton
plant in Roanoke Rapids, South Carolina. ... On October 6, 1963, she wrote a letter to J.P. Stevens
informing the company that she had joined the union’s organizing
committee. ...
Months before Shirley allegedly undercounted her napkins,
James Walden decided to become one of the first J.P. Stevens
employees to join the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA).
Soon company officials posted his name on a shop wall, and one
week later James Walden was fired for tying doubles at Stevens.
The day after Walden was fired, three of his coworkers told J.P.
Stevens management that they had offered their resignation to the
union. ...
Idolene Steel, Charles Knight, Arthur Knight, and two others
were the first five Stevens workers to join TWUA in 1963. ... There was no evidence
that any Stevens worker had ever been fired for this reason
before. ... 2
In 1963, when J.P. Stevens first learned that the workers
were planning to organize a union at Steven’s Roanoke Rapids
mill, executives posted a notice on company bulletin boards
declaring that the company would oppose the union “by every
proper means and prevent its coming into existence.”3 In the
following decade the notice was borne out, with one exception:
Stevens opposed the union by every means, proper, and improper,
legal and illegal, and prevented the union from coming into
existence for almost 15 years.
Approximate Word count = 1112
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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