Striking Mill Workers Jeer Strikebreakers Textile workers on strike against the Cannon Textile Mills in North Carolina in September 1934 shouted taunts and curses at employees who refused to honor the strikers’ picket line. Why do you think strikers and strikebreakers wore different styles of clothing? Although thousands of women joined the strike, there are no women among the strikers shown here. Why might that be? © Bettmann/Corbis.