Strike at Ives and Dunham

Title

Strike at Ives and Dunham

Description

Seventy five Irish mill builders go on strike for a raise to $1.25 a day. Ives and Dunham fire them and demolish the Irish shanty town at Kerry Hill.

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 27.

Date

1864

Contributor

turner_max

Mediator

horn_allen

Collection

Citation

“Strike at Ives and Dunham,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/759.