Strike at Domestic Silk

Strike at Domestic Silk

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.

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.

1933-07-20/1933-09

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Beardsley's language makes the timing of the strike very unclear.