Third Strike at American Thread Co.

Title

Third Strike at American Thread Co.

Description

2500 American Thread Company workers go on strike and eventually State Police are called to protect 1800 scabs. Many are forced to leave town in search of other work over the course of the nine month strike.

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 97,100.

Date

1925

Contributor

turner_max

Collection

Digital Windham

Citation

“Third Strike at American Thread Co.,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/850.