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1922 New England Textile Strike. Reversal of 20% wage cut for most. The New England Textile Strike was a strike led by members of the United Textile Workers of America (UTW) principally in the U.S. states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. [4] Throughout the duration of the strike, an estimated 68,000-85,000 workers refused to work.
Added to NRHP. June 20, 1984. The Spicket Falls Historic District encompasses the historic industrial and commercial heart of Methuen, Massachusetts, and one of the lower Merrimack River 's best-preserved 19th century mill complexes. It is centered on the falls of the Spicket River, from which the 19th century textile mills of Methuen derived ...
At least 162 injured. One mill guard death. The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34[4][2][1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty ...
Terence Dolan House. January 20, 1984. ( #84002323) 478 Prospect St. 42°43′30″N 71°09′29″W. / 42.725°N 71.158056°W / 42.725; -71.158056 ( Terence Dolan House) A large Georgian Revival home, typical of houses built in its neighborhood at the beginning of the twentieth century. 7. Double-arch Sandstone Bridge.
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Website. www.cityofmethuen.net. Methuen (/ məˈθuːən / [2]) is a 23-square-mile (60 km 2) city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 53,059 at the 2020 census. [3] Methuen lies along the northwestern edge of Essex County, just east of Middlesex County and just south of Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911. 1911 Grand Rapids furniture workers strike. Louisiana-Texas Lumber War of 1911–1912. 1912. 1912 Lawrence "Bread & Roses" textile strike. 1912 New York City waiters' strike. Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912. Seattle Fishermen halibut strike of 1912.
1912 Lawrence textile strike. The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Prompted by a two-hour pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the workweek for women, the strike spread rapidly ...