HARVARD UNIVERSITY
BAKER BUSINESS SCHOOL
LAWRENCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY RECORDS
LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS
WRIITEN BY WILLIAM AUSTIN
AGENT, LAWRENCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
TO HENRY HALL
TREASURER, LAWRENCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
EXCERPT REGARDING
STRIKE FEBRUARY 1834
William Austin wrote in a letter to Henry Hall, the company treasurer
in Boston:
". . . notwithstanding the friendly and disinterested advice which
has been on all proper occassions communicated to the girls of the Lawrence
mills a spirit of evil omen. . . has prevailed, and overcome the judgment
and discretion of too many, and this morning a general turn-out from most
of the rooms has been the consequence."1
William Austin wrote the next day:
"This afternoon we have paid off several of these Amazons & presume
that they will leave town on Monday."2
William Austin described the operatives' procession as an:
"amizonian display."3
1Lawrence Manufacturing Company
Records, Correspondence,
Vol. MAB-1, February
14, 1834.
2Ibid., February 15, 1834.
3Ibid., March 4 and March 9, 1834.
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