The Lawrence Strike of 1912 |
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54 hours 54-hour basis 54-hour bill 54-hour law 54-hour schedule action American Federation American Woolen Company announced arbitrate Arlington Mills attempt average wage Boston BRUCE MCPHERSON cause cent increase Central Labor Union class war Committee on Rules concessions Conciliation Committee conference declared denounced earnings effect effort employees English Ettor Europe Faneuil Hall February February 12 Federation of Labor force funds Governor Foss grievances Haywood Hearings Idem immigrants increase of wages Industrial Workers investigation Italian January January 13 January 20 Kunhardt Mills large number Lawrence Duck leaders loom fixers machinery March militia mill executives mill managers mill owners mule spinners night officers operatives outbreak parents police premium system President Wood reduced sent settlement skilled Socialists southeastern Europe statement Strike Committee Syrians testified tion trade unions United Textile Workers unskilled violence wage system wages for 54 wages paid Washington Mill weavers women WOOL MANUFACTURERS World York
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Page 10 - ... completely as any general ever controlled the disciplined troops . . . [and was able] to organize these thousands of heterogeneous, heretofore unsympathetic and jealous nationalities, into a militant body of class-conscious workers. His followers firmly believed. as they were told, that success meant that they were about to enter a new era of brotherhood, in which there would be no more union of trades and no more departmental distinctions, but all workers would become the real bosses in the...
Page 37 - With regard to this incident, the manufacturers have given to The Outlook the following statement : The manufacturers of Lawrence are in no way responsible for any detention of children who were being sent out of the State. The manufacturers did not ask for this ; they were not consulted about it; they were not informed of the contemplated action of the local authorities. Any decision as to the lawful and proper course to be pursued in this matter will be entirely satisfactory to the manufacturers,...
Page 25 - I was made upon the street cars, during which the trolleys were pulled off the feed wire, the windows smashed with chunks of ice, the motormen and conductors driven off, and the passengers, in some cases, not allowed to leave the cars, and in others pulled from the cars and thrown into the streets.
Page 9 - This man . . . steeped in the literature of revolutionary socialism and anarchism, swayed the undisciplined mob as completely as any general ever controlled the disciplined troops . . . [and was able] to organize these thousands of heterogeneous, heretofore unsympathetic and jealous nationalities, into a militant body of class-conscious workers.
Page 46 - Taft, if you are a Taft man. Ask Colonel Roosevelt, if you follow him. Each will admit that the conflict is certainly coming if some radical step is not taken to check it. A recent Commissioner of Labor in New York State said to me not long ago, "You may like the labor unions or not, but the time is coming when you will be grateful to them as the only thing that stands between you and anarchy.
Page 29 - ... on February 10 by Mr. Ellis of the legislative committee in a telegram to WD Haywood, chairman of the strike committee vice Ettor, arrested: " Because of the diversity of products and the varying conditions, it seems impossible to them to deal with the matter of a general conference, at least until it appears that a fair effort has been made by the employees to deal separately with the several mills.
Page 17 - That belt since the 1st of January was speeded up by putting some kind of soap on it, or whatever it is called, and it was running with a much faster speed than it used to be: in fact that we could not attend to the work. But it is also speeded up by the loom fixer — the one that fixes the weaving machines, because he gets the premium when more cloth comes off from that machine, and the second hand in that room gets the premium when more cloth comes on in that room.
Page 39 - Such advances are to be equitably adjusted according to the classes of workers and their earnings, and in no case to be less than five per cent. The new schedule of wages will go- into effect Monday, March 4, 1912.
Page 6 - The past year has been a most unsatisfactory one for those engaged in our industry. Few mills earned dividends; most mills which paid dividends took them from surplus accumulations of other years and many mills were compelled to pass dividends entirely. Extensive curtailment was the rule, but many mills were run at a loss in order to keep operatives employed and organizations together. The results of the year 1911 throw a strong light on the condition of the industry and give a most effective answer...
Page 6 - The \\year 1911 was one of almost unparalleled depression in the cotton industry in this country.