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Textile workers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:

Robert M. Vogel Collection of Textile Industry Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6864
Abstract Collection of materials related to the textile industry including Amoskeag Co. blank forms. Comparisons of wages between foreign and American printeries. Correspondence to H. Saltonstall, Treasurer, Pacific Mills, Boston. Letter from Jess Chandler of Methuen, Mass. to his niece. Document from an unidentified compiler in England describing loss of money from uncertainty of finding a purchaser for winding engines because of threats of throwsters to destroy engines. Letter from Bent, treasurer...
Dates: 1720-1937

Rockdale Mills Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6867
Abstract

Carding time book, January 1867-March 1882. and a time book from December 29, 1845 to November 16, 1850.

Dates: 1845-12-1882-03

Roger Williams Cotton Manufacturing Company Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: 6869
Scope and Contents

Cash account book, including accounts with agents, employees' cash payroll, and expenses

Dates: 1810-1818

Roland D. Sawyer Papers

 Collection
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: 1912