Born: January 11, 1901
Occupation: Spinner
Ethnic Background: French Canadian
Interviewer: Yildray Erdener, PhD.
Comments: Recalling the mill strike as an 11 year old boy. Hosing down the strikers. Starting in the mills as a bag boy, 54 hours a week for $5.76. Description of workers and their jobs, spinners, mulespiecer, bag boy. Free time was spent bowling or dancing. How everyone in the family contributed their pay to help support the family. Recalling the Shawsheen Mill strike of 1931. The flood of 1936. Good description of machinery on this tape.
Shifting Gears Tapes #27 & #28
Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
Date (created)
1988-10-11