Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
ATHM Textile Industry Film
Collection
Identifier: 6524/009 F
Scope and Contents
Although this volume contains listings labeled cotton manufacturing accounts, woolen manufacturing accounts, gristmill, and store, as well as Northboro Manufacturing Co., it is thought to be a journal of that company. The entries show evidence of the barter system in practice at this time, listing sums due for dressing cloth, carding, weaving, repairing a spinning jenny, etc. The names of workers or customers are listed for each entry. Goods sold include corn, barley, straw, gin, candles,...
Dates:
undated
ATHM Textile Industry Photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6524/002 P
Dates:
1732-1992
ATHM Textile Industry Postcards
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6524/005 P
Abstract
Collection of roughly 2,800 postcards and 20 photographs documenting the textile industry in the United States in the 20th Century.
Dates:
1900-1999
ATHM Textile Industry Publications on Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: 6524/012 mf
Abstract
Microfilm collection of letters, press relesases, petitions, and pamplets relating to the arrest and imprisonment of Joseph Ettor and the "Bread and Roses" strike in Lawrence, MA in 1912.
Dates:
undated
Henry F. Bedfore Collection of Lawrence Textile Strike Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 6692 P
Abstract
Photographs from the end of the Lawrence Textile Strike on March 14, 1912, Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Dates:
1912-03
Henry F. Bedfore Collection of Textile Related Graphics
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6692 G
Roland D. Sawyer Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 6871
Scope and Contents
Ettor writes on letterhead of the Essex County Jail and House of Correction, thanking Sawyer for his support, attesting his innocence, and his loyalty to the working class. Collection also contains copies of press releases issued at the time of the Lawrence textile strike. They include: "Socialist Candidate Speaks for Ettor," in which Rev. Sawyer, the Socialist candidate for governor of Mass., likened Ettor and Giovannitti to William Lloyd Garrison and other leaders of the abolitionist...
Dates:
1859