Strike at Chaffee Mill

Title

Strike at Chaffee Mill

Description

Thirty silk weavers march around Chaffee's mill demanding higher wages

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile and History Museum, 1993), 68.

Date

1880

Contributor

freebairn_richard

Collection

Digital Windham

Citation

“Strike at Chaffee Mill,” History Digitized, accessed March 12, 2026, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/788.