Lawrence Textile Workers' Strike scrapbook, circa 1912-1918.

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Lawrence Textile Workers' Strike scrapbook, circa 1912-1918.

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Collection consists of material relating to the Lawrence Textile Workers' Strike of 1912 (also known as the Bread and Roses Strike), including circular letters issued by the Ettor & Giovannitti Defense League (organized by Big Bill Haywood of the Industrial Workers of the World), posters, flyers, resolutions calling for the release of Ettor and Giovannitti and the impeachment of Judge Brown, and material relating to strikes in support of Lawrence textile workers in New Bedford, Hopedale (Morrison I. Swift, The Hopedale strike : a description of the great Draper despotism), and Little Falls, N.Y. (Little Falls strike bulletin, vol. 1, no. 1). Scrapbook has been disbound.

19 items in box ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7956650

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Ettor, Joseph J.

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Ettor joined the International Workers of the World in 1906 and was active in leading strikes in several cities. He came to Lawrence, Mass. during the textile workers' strike of 1912 to help organize workers and to assist in relief efforts. He and Arturo Giovannitti, another organizer, were arrested as "accessories to murder" after a woman striker was shot and killed during a demonstration, although they had been speaking at a strike meeting three miles away from the murder. They were later acqu...

Ettor & Giovannitti Defense League

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Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928

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Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Draper Company

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The Draper Corporation, based in Hopedale, Massachusetts, was incorporated in 1916, but predecessor companies had been manufacturing loom parts and other textile items, including temples and spindles, in Hopedale since the early 1800s. Draper had been a worldwide textile machinery technology leader from the development of ring spinning in the 1870s and 1880s through the development of automatic looms at the turn of the century and high-speed looms in the 1930s. It was a near monopoly producer of...

National Industrial Union of Textile Workers.

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Swift, Morrison I. (Morrison Isaac), 1856-

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Reformer, pamphleteer. From the description of Morrison Swift papers, 1896-1899, 1927. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68796334 From the description of Papers, 1896-1899, 1927. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34368910 ...

Giovannitti, Arturo M., 1884-1959

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