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In 1902, 800 workers went on strike over an increase in the pace of work and a reduction in their wages linked with the implementation by the 58-hour work week in Rhode Island. [5] Employees returned to work after one week. [6] In 1907, there was a strike among the 500 workers in the carding room.
Tillinghast Factory ruins, 1915 photo [2]. The Tillinghast Mill Site is an historic industrial site in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.The site is the location of a cotton mill established in 1812 most likely by Allin Tillinghast and Joseph Joslyn Tillinghast. [3]
The Lymansville Company Mill is a historic industrial complex at 184 Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence, Rhode Island.The oldest portion of the complex, a three-story brick building which originally a textile spinning and carding building, was built in 1884.
The Phillips Insulated Wire Company Complex is an historic industrial site at 413 Central Avenue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Encompassing three city blocks, the Phillips complex includes fourteen brick buildings with more than 350,000 square feet (33,000 m 2) of space. They were built by the Phillips Insulated Wire Company between about 1898 ...
The Weybosset Mills Complex is a historic industrial site in the Olneyville section of Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of nine historic brick factory buildings, located on three city blocks west of Rhode Island Route 10 and north of United States Route 6, just northwest of their junction. The three blocks are bounded on the south by ...
The strike resulted in 150 people being evicted from their mill-owned homes, [5] as well as riots and attacks on the mill, following which the National Guard was called in by Rhode Island governor Emery J. San Souci and machine guns mounted to the roofs of Pontiac Mill and nearby Natick Mill.
Companies with workers in Rhode Island filed seven WARN notices, covering a total of 1,035 workers, ranging from 52 at TPI Composites, the wind-turbine blade maker that announced it is closing its ...
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company Complex, 1896 [3]. The first building was designed in 1872 by Brown & Sharpe employee Thomas McFarlane. [4] It was a huge 66,000 square-foot structure made of brick, cast iron, and concrete, and held space for all the company's functions. [4]