Strike at Domestic Silk
Title
Strike at Domestic Silk
Description
400 workers at the Domestic Silk mills walk off the job due to inhumane working conditions and the company's failure to comply with the labor provisions laid out by the National Recovery Act. Another 400 walk off the job a week later. Two months later, Domestic Silk workers begin work again after pressure from Washington D.C. forces the company to comply with striker demands and the National Recovery Act regulations.
Source
Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 83-4.
Date
1933-07-20/1933-09
Contributor
turner_max
Abstract
Beardsley's language makes the timing of the strike very unclear.
Collection
Citation
“Strike at Domestic Silk,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/857.