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The 1913 Paterson silk strike was a work stoppage involving silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey. The strike involved demands for establishment of an eight-hour day and improved working conditions. The strike began in February 1 1913 but didn't generalize until February 25 1913.The strike ended five months later, on July 28.
Reinhardt Mills, later Boris Kroll Mills, is a historic silk mill complex located in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. Part of the complex has been redeveloped as the Paterson Commons apartments with future plans for additional redevelopment. [3] The Philip's Academy Charter School opened a campus on the site in 2016. [4]
In 1913 the Paterson Silk Strike also referred to as the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1913 [3] took place in Paterson, New Jersey. This strike was a work stoppage involving silk mill worker. Strikes
In the middle part of the 1920s, there were over 16,000 workers employed in the wool and silk mills located in and around Passaic, New Jersey. [2] The largest of the mills in the area, the German-owned Botany Worsted Mill, employed 6,400 workers, with three other giant mills employing thousands more. [2]
Old Gun Mill, also referred to as "Colt Gun Mill", [1] is a notable historic mill in Paterson, New Jersey where the Colt revolver was first produced in the 1830s, and where John Ryle produced and manufactured silk for the first time in the United States.
John Ryle (October 22, 1817 – November 6, 1887) was the Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey from 1869 to 1870. An English-born silk manufacturer, he was best known for being the "father of the United States silk industry".
American Silk Mills, Paterson, New Jersey, founded in 1905 by Edward Rubin (died 1939), a Russian-born furrier residing in New York City at 22 E. 93rd St. [12] Auburn Button Works and Logan Silk Mills , Auburn in Cayuga County, New York
The Great Falls of the Passaic River, showing the turbine housing of the S.U.M. dating from 1911. The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.) [1] or Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures was a private state-sponsored corporation founded in 1791 to promote industrial development along the Passaic River in New Jersey in the United States. [2]