2019.070.003

A scrapbook filled with articles on the topics of city government jobs, municipal work, and infrastructure during harsh winters as well as city council decisions based on these topics. The book begins with a list of engineering directors in Essex County and their respective precinct. The next few pages hold articles about city police and postal workers lobbying for an additional free day in their schedule, cutting the work week down so as one person can only work 6 days in a row without a day off on any given week. Articles following these surround the exodus of mill workers and those appointed government jobs to better paying jobs in national defense. On the topic of national defense, a few of these articles also detail how the Lawrence city mayor was concerned about air raids, and convinced civilians in the city that this danger was imminent after the destruction at Pearl Harbor, which led to many citizens paying and passing in government war bonds to support the war. A blizzard around 1941 caused many city officials and government workers to shift focus to cleaning up the snow, parking bans were put in places for the first time and contracts for new infrastructure meant to aid in the movement of snow were drafted, including one that gave the city a new set of snow plows.