Strike at Windham Silk Company
Title
Strike at Windham Silk Company
Description
Windham Silk Company workers strike for a 15% wage increase. After failing to break the strike with Syrian replacements, the company agrees to a 7.5% increase in wages. At the same time they agree to recognize the United Textile Workers union.
Source
Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, “Feeling the Unrest of the Times: The 1912 Labor Struggles in Willimantic, Connecticut,” Connecticut History Review 55, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 111–139, here 127-9.
Date
1912-05-06/1912-08-02
Contributor
hall_tyler
Collection
Citation
“Strike at Windham Silk Company,” History Digitized, accessed March 12, 2026, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/837.