[2] The textile maker made a large addition to an existing mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1925.
[1] The Rossville operation was liquidated and the Tifton plant was sold to the J.P. Stevens Textile Corporation.
[2] In November 1961 a Federal judge ruled that Burlington Industries could close the Peerless Plant in Rossville without engaging in collective bargaining with a union there.
The NLRB had asked for the injunction when members of the Allied Industrial Workers contended the mill was being shut down to avoid collective bargaining.
[4] In November 1961, the NLRB studied whether to appeal the judge's ruling because the company's union won the right to represent workers in August 1961, a month before the plant was closed down.