Hopedale strike
1913 American loom manufacturer strike
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Textile strikes in United States
- 1800s
- Mill Women 1834
- Paterson 1835
- Mill Women 1836
- New England shoe 1860
- North Adams shoe 1870
- 1900s–1920s
- Skowhegan 1907
- New York shirtwaist 1909
- Chicago garment 1910
- Lawrence 1912
- Little Falls 1912–1913
- Hopedale 1913
- Paterson silk 1913
- Ipswich Mills 1913
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills 1914–1915
- New England 1922
- Passaic 1926
- New Bedford 1928
- Loray Mill 1929
- 1930s–1970s
- Los Angeles garment 1933
- National 1934
- Lewiston-Auburn shoe 1937
- Montreal Cotton 1946
- 1980s–2000s
- NYC Chinatown 1982
The Hopedale strike was a labour dispute at the American loom manufacturer Draper Company in Hopedale, Massachusetts. It began in April 1913 and disintegrated after three months. The strike came amid a wave of regional strikes that year, as Draper's 2,000 employees walked out on April 1 for a nine-hour day, a 22-cent minimum hourly wage, and the end of piecework. After Draper's director, the former Massachusetts governor Eben Draper rejected their demands. The workers voted to continue their strike indefinitely, supported by the Industrial Workers of the World's Joseph Coldwell.[1]
References
- ^ Tejada, Susan (2012). In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World. Northeastern. pp. 51–53. ISBN 978-1-55553-730-2.
Further reading
- Chomsky, Aviva (2008). "The Draper Company". Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8891-3.
- Danker, Anita Cardillo (1991). "From Christian Utopia to Company Town: Communal Life and Corporate Paternalism in 19th and 20th Century Hopedale, Massachusetts". Utopian Studies (4): 72–78. ISSN 1045-991X. JSTOR 20718950.
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