Strike at American Thread Co.

Strike at American Thread Co.

500 Polish, Russian, and Syrian workers walk out, protesting the firing of a union affiliated worker and demanding a reduction in the work week from 58 to 54 hours. American Thread Company agent Eugene Boss refuses to negotiate, no union representation comes to support the strike, and the strikers are forced to concede that day. Many strikers are not rehired.

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 124-7.

1912-11-15

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