Immigrant city: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, Part 21

Author: Cole, Donald B
Publication date: 1963
Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press
Number of Pages: 274


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Board of Library trustees, 164


Boer War, 88, 145


Bolshevism, 201 Bomb explosion, 201


Boston and Maine Railroad, 115-16


Boston Ministers' Association, 5 Bower, Robert, 135


Boxing, 65


Bradford, England, 93, 115 Bradford Street, 109


240


INDEX


Brady, Terence, 39 Bramhall, Samuel, 200-1


Broadway, 43, 61, 72 Brooks, John, 10


Brooks, Phillips, 60


Breen, John (politician), and Salvation Army, 54; and Pacific Strike, 54; defends priests, 55; and A.P.A., 87; attacks British, 88; funeral, 132; mentioned, 51, 135, 144, 147, 154, 178, 185


Breen, John (undertaker), 181, 182, 184, 185


Breen ring, 52 Britain's Day parade, 199


British, arrests, 59; homes, 61; endog- amy among, 104; occupations, 123- 25, 129; social clubs, 140; mentioned, 53, 67, 81, 88, 90, 95, 116, 152. See also English


British-American Convention, 43


British-American Society, 152


British factories, conditions in, 130


Brox, James, 188


Bruce, Alexander, 56


Bryan flag fund, 116 "Bullfrog Tavern," 69 Burke, E. T., 47


Burns, Robert, 144


Business cycle, 119-21


Butler, Benjamin, 49, 55 Byrnes, Frank, 47


Caledonian Club, 140 Calitri, Dr. Constant, 188


Campaign Budget, 51-52


Campopiano, Jeremiah, 69, 188, 191 Canada, 27


Canadians. See French Canadians Canadian "birds of passage," 133 Canal, 19, 107


Canal Street, 20-21, 65


Canoe Club, 65


Canoe racing, 65


Cantillon, O'Hea, 28, 33, 39


Carney, Michael (laborer), 29-30


Carney, Michael (beverage dealer),


185


Carter, Clark, 187. See also City mis- sionary


Caruso, Joseph, 182, 184. See Ettor- Giovannitti-Caruso trial Cassannanca, Paul, 187


Catholic Church. See Churches Catholic Debating Society, 146


Catholic Foresters, 89


Catholic Friends Society, 58 Catholic Herald, 53, 55


Catholic Library Society, 91 Catholic school, 40


Catholics, disturb Salvation Army, 54


Central Labor Union, 91-92, 134


Cercle Paroissial of Ste. Anne's, 141


Chabis Hall, 187, 189, 193


Chamber of Commerce, 197 Children, removed from Lawrence, during 1912 strike, 183; during 1919 strike, 200


Chinese, 11, 77, 90, 131 Choral Union, 61


Christopher Columbus Society, 142-43, 145


Churches, attendance at, 33; Catholic, 35, 55, 84, 85; Augustinian Fathers' Bank collapse, 54-55; establishment, 139-40; set up social groups, 139, 141-42; Americanism of clergy, 162- 67; mentioned, 131. See also specific churches


Circolo di Studi Sociali, 171 Citizens' Association in 1912, 190, 195, 204


City charter, revised, 177


City missionary, 52, 108, 117


Clan MacPherson picnic, 140 Clergy, Americanism of, 162-67; na- tive, 162-64; immigrant, 164-67. See also Churches, William Law- rence, James O'Reilly Cleveland, Grover, 55-56


Cleveland, T. C., 5


Cloutier, Amedée, 51 Cloutier, James, 92 Club Lincoln, 167


Clubs, most popular, 138. Organizations


See also


Cole, John N., 5, 10


Colombo, Antonio, printing office, 181; mentioned, 193


Columbus Day, parade in 1892, 164, 166; parade in 1912, 195-96; parade in 1915, 199; mentioned, 69, 142, 144


Common Street, 20, 33, 35, 36, 66, 69, 72, 109, 111, 117 Communists, 170, 200 Congrégation des Dames, 92, 133, 141 Conlin, Owen H., 56 Contract Labor Law, violations of, 92-93, 192. See also Mills


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INDEX


Cooperative stores, 92, 139, 142-43 Cost of living in 1876, 119


Cotton factories, 113. See also Mills Courrier de Lawrence, 157, 186, 196 Cricket, 65


Crowding in tenements, 71-73 Crime. See Arrests, Riots


Cunard Line, 100 Curran, Maurice, marriage of, 132 Cyclone fund, 131


Cyclone of 1890, 68


Dam, 19, 27, 34, 61 Daughters of Saint George, 43, 152 Davitt, Michael, 47


Death, average age at, 64; mentioned, 106


Death rate, 1850-80, 64; higher than Massachusetts, 1870-90, 66; 1870-90, 76; from diseases 1900, 77n; men- tioned, 29


Debating circles, 139 Debs, Eugene, 3, 6, 8, 172 DeCourcey, Charles A., 86 Deer Jump Falls, 17 DeLeon, Daniel, 7 Denby, James, 93 Democratic national convention of 1884, Breen at, 55


Democratic party, concern for Law- rence strike, 8; occupations of lead- ers, 39; Breen Machine, 51-52; men- tioned, 33-34, 37-38, 57, 82, 86-87, 147, 150, 167, 170


Depressions, 1854-55, 34; 1873 and 1895, 118-19


Derbyshire, James, 44, 148 Detollenaere, Cyrille, 188 Diarrheal diseases epidemic 1890, 76 Dick, Hugo E., 44, 151 Diphtheria epidemic, 1890, 76; 1878, 106


Disease, in 1850's, 29; epidemics from polluted water, 62-63; smallpox, 63; hospitals, 63-64; death rates from, 66, 76; in mills, 75-76; 1890 epi- demics, 76; deaths from in 1900, 77n; 1878 epidemics, 106; deaths of babies from, 106-7 Doctors, 23, 129 Doffers, 118, 120 Dog fighting, 65 Doherty, Ann, 54 Dolan, Thomas, 115 Drapeau, 146


Dressers, 118


Drinking water, purity of, 29, 62


Drunkenness, Irish, 33; Irish and Ger- man, 58-59; liquor licenses, 59; wed- ding orgies, 78 Dublin, 27 Duck Mill, 31 Duffy, Maggie, 53 Dynamite, in Marad's shop, 182; plot uncovered, 184, 192


Earnings, yearly, in 1876, 119 Ebert, Justus, 7


Elections, 1846, 34; 1850-53, 36-38; 1874-76, 49; 1880-82, 51-52; 1884, 55-56; 1890's, 81-83, 86-87; 1884- 1912, 147-52


Electric railway, 69 Emmett Literary Society, 146


Endogamy, 103-4


English, arrival, 42-43; population, 43; organizations, 43-44, 138-53 passim; location, 43; conflict with Irish, 48; support 1882 strike, 53; in hospital, 64; wives abroad, 100; previous oc- cupations, 114; wages, 121; occupa- tions, 124-25; in politics, 148-49; in 1912 strike, 186; mentioned, 109, 117, 135, 142, 144, 145, 146, 150, 153, 168, 169, 171. See also British English Social Club, 43, 140


Essex Bank, 130 Essex Company, 10, 18, 23, 130 Essex Eagle, 60, 155, 167 Essex Street, 20-21, 61, 72


Essex Turnpike, 17, 43


Ettor, Joseph, called to Lawrence, 179; organizes strike of 1912, 180; ar- rested, 182; on wages in Lawrence, 191; mentioned, 4, 6, 7, 12, 136, 181, 186, 188, 193, 195. See also Ettor- Giovannitti-Caruso trial


Ettor-Giovannitti-Caruso trial, Euro- pean demonstrations over, 4; Defense Committee, 4; mentioned, 12, 184, 187, 191-92 Evening Tribune, 47, 58, 66, 70, 77, 82, 86, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 140, 150, 151, 155, 164, 167, 170, 185, 198, 201, 202 Excursion trains, 21


Fall River, 11, 52, 118, 131 Family, security through, 99-112; ties with old country, 99-101; endogamy


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in marriages, 103-5; birth rate, 105- 6; death of babies, 106-7; family unit, 191


Father Matthew Temperance Society, 138


Father O'Reilly's Temperance Society, 59


Fenian movement, 42, 45-46, 145


Fieldman, Sol, 3


Fifty-four hour law, 179


Filter, for drinking water, 62


Filth, in tenements, 73


Fire escapes, in mills, 75


Fires, Pemberton, 32; tenement, 71; mentioned, 29


Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 181, 193


Food, in 1850's, 29-30; in boarding houses, 30; in 1912 strike, 74, 75n Football, 65 Forbes, William, 116


Ford brothers, 52-53


Fosdick, Harry Emerson, comment on Lawrence strike, 5


Foss, Governor (Massachusetts), 8, 10 Foster, George, 93


Fourth of July float, Chinese, 131


Franco-American Independent Club,


167


Franco-Belgians, in 1912 strike, 11, 188-89; in 1902 strike, 94; coopera- tive, 143, 193; mentioned, 157


Franklin Library Association, 23


Free Soil Party, 34, 36-37


Freiheit Lodge, 154


French, in hospital, 64; mentioned, 90, 136, 158


French Canadians, arrival, 42; popula- tion, 42; organizations, 42, 138-53; location, 43, 72, 76, 109; trouble with Irish, 45; and Pacific strike, 53; drunkenness, 58; arrests, 59; in hospital, 64; in 1894 strike, 94; wives abroad, 100; family problems, 101; endogamy among, 104; previous oc- cupations, 114; occupations, 123, 125- 26; real estate, 131; church, 139; social clubs, 141; politics, 149-50; newspapers, 156-58; in 1912 strike, 185-86; mentioned, 63, 67, 77, 78, 89, 91-92, 95, 117, 133, 144, 146, 151-53, 168, 169, 185-86, 196-97, 203 French Catholic Church, 198 French colony, 111 French Cooperative Store, 92, 143 French Democratic Club, 150


French Republican Club, 150 Friends of Irish Freedom, 199 Frontier, Lawrence and, 132


Gaelic Athletic Association, 140


Gaelic League, 198


Galicia, 11, 69


Garden Street, 69


Gardner, Henry, 36-38


Gazzetta (Boston), 188


George, Henry, 60


Germans, arrival, 42, 44; organizations,


44, 138-53 passim; location, 44; in Pacific strike, 53; arrests, 59; Per- sonal Liberty League, 59; music, 61; oppose smallpox inoculation, 63; in hospital, 64; in 1894 and 1902 strikes, 94; marriage, 100, 104; oc- cupations, 114, 123, 125; wages, 121; labor movement, 135-36; in Socialist Labor party, 141, 169, 170; Republi- cans, 146, 149; in 1912 strike, 186; mentioned, 12, 47, 67, 82, 88, 89, 95, 109, 114, 117, 131, 138, 144, 145, 146, 150, 152, 153, 159, 168, 169, 186, 193, 198


Gerrymander attempt of 1885, 50, 56- 57


Gerrymander of 1875, 49-50, 147 Giannini, Ettore, 193


Gilmanton, Thomas, 138


Giovannitti, Arturo, 4, 6, 7, 12, 181, 182, 186, 193, 195. See also Ettor- Giovannitti-Caruso trial


Glee and Madrigal Club, 146 Glen Forest Park, 90


"God and Country" parade, 195-96


Golden, John, 6, 7, 134, 192


Goldman, Emma, 3, 7, 155


Gompers, Samuel, 3, 134-35


Gompers banquet, 166


Grace Episcopal Church, 162 Grant, Madison, 10


Greeks, 164


Guardians of Liberty, 197


Hajjar, Doctor, 188 Hallsville, 44, 61


Hampshire Street, 21, 181


Hannegan, Dixie, 52


Harper's Weekly, 5


Harriman, Job, 171 Haverhill, 17 Haverhill Street, 21, 57 Haymarket Riot, 170


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Haywood, William, 3-4, 6, 181, 182, 188, 193


Health Department, 52


Hersey, Scott, 86


Hibernians, 12, 28, 57, 68, 81, 88,


138, 140, 143, 152, 154, 198


Hinchcliffe, Richard, 135


Hogan, Bridget, 35


Holidays and celebrations, sports, 65- 66, 140; social organizations, 140- 42; holidays, 143-44


Holliday, Thomas, 186 Holman, D. M., 10


Holyoke, 11, 19


Homes, slums in 1912, 9; Irish shanties, 28-29; tenements, 66, 70-74, 108; description of tenements, 107; boarder system, 108; shifts within city, 109-11; poverty in, 117; men- tioned, 21, 132


Homesteads, 133 Horatio Alger ideal, 155


Horse racing, 65


Hospital, patients at, 63, 64


Hours of work, 120-21


Hunchak Club, 146


Hyphenate associations, 139, 152


Illegitimate children, 107 Illiteracy, 79-80


Immaculate Conception Church, 28, 139


Immigrant cycle, 13, 41, 42, 95-96, 109, 112, 121, 124, 129, 136, 189-90, 202-4


Immigration Commission, 9, 12, 80, 93, 113, 114, 121, 127 Immigration Problem, 9


Immigration restriction laws, 202 Immigration Restriction League, 9


Imperialism, opposed by immigrant press, 160


Industrial Workers of the World, 3, 4, 6, 7, 67, 136, 180-81, 184, 186, 189, 192, 196


International Institute for Women, 196 Irish, famine in Ireland, 11, 26-27; founding of city, 11; in model town, 24; number in Lawrence, 24, 27; location in Lawrence, 25-26, 111; ar- rival, 27, 42; homes, 28-29, 41; or- ganizations, 28, 37, 58, 138-53 pas- sim; in mills, 30-31; antagonism to- ward, 32-41, 48-51, 56-57, 81-88; in riots, 32-33, 35-36, 40, 47-48;


drunkness, 33, 40-41; illiteracy, 33; in politics, 39, 49, 51-52, 147-48; Fenian movement, 45-46; Irish In- dependence movement, 45-47; Irish- Orange riot, 47-48; Breen machine, 51-52; and Pacific strike, 53; against Salvation Army, 53-54; and collapse of Augustinian Bank, 55; schism among, 55-57; intellectual advance- ment, 58; arrests of, 59; at hospital, 64; diseases of, 76; trouble with other immigrants, 78, 88-89; and A.P.A., 85; and 1902 strike, 94-95; marriage of, 102, 104; birth rate of, 106; occupations of, 114, 123-26, 129; wages of, 121; bank deposits of, 130; expensive vacations of, 132; set up church, 139; social clubs of, 140; newspapers, 155-56; in 1912 strike, 184-85; Americanism of, 195- 200; mentioned, 43, 57, 67, 69, 72, 81-83, 91-92, 105, 109, 112, 116-17, 122, 133, 135, 138, 144-47, 150-54, 157, 164, 168, 169, 170, 189, 203 Irish-American Club, 152 Irish-Americans, 88


Irish Benevolent Society, 28, 58, 142 Irish Land League, 47


Irish Republican Club, 147


Italians, Socialist Federation of, 7; in Lawrence Strike, 9, 188-89; in hos- pital, 64; arrival, 68-69; location, 69, 109, 111; organizations, 69, 138-53 passim; nativism, 91; in 1894 strike, 94; birth rate, 106; occupations, 114, 123, 126, 129; wages, 121; bank deposits, 130; real estate, 131; re- turn home, 133; branch of I.W.W., 136, 179; relief fund, 145; branch of Socialist Labor party, 171; business- men and priests, 187-88; schools, 198; textile workers, 201; mentioned, 11, 77, 78, 90, 108, 116-17, 144, 146, 153, 169, 180, 184, 186, 189-90, 192- 93, 200, 202-3


Jackson, Patrick, 17, 18 Jackson Street, 21, 65 Jencks, Jeremiah, 9, 10


Jews, arrival, 69; colony of, 111; clubs, 142; treatment in Russia, 145; schools, 198; mentioned, 90, 91, 153, 198 Joyce, Jim, 52 Joyce, John, 185


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INDEX


Kaplan, Ime, 200


Kearney, Dennis, 136


Khoury, Joseph M., 70


Kindergarten, 60


Kitchens, 107-8


Knights of Columbus, 197


Knights of Labor, 116, 134, 156, 169


Knights of Saint Crispin, 134


Knights of Saint Patrick, 140


Know-Nothing movement, 39, 40, 48, 56, 190 Know-Nothing party, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41 Kossuth, Louis, 33 Kreisler, Fritz, 199


Labor Commission Report on Law- rence Strike, 12, 72, 191


Labor reform party, 120, 135


Labor unions, in Lawrence strike, 6-7,


192; early unions, 134; textile unions, 134-35; immigrants in, 135-36. See also American Federation of Labor, National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, Industrial Workers of the World


Lacaillade, Charles, 43


Ladies Union Charitable Society, 63


Lafayette Court of Foresters, 92


Lancashire, 11


Land League Convention, 47


Lauck, Jett, 9


Laurel Grove, 48


Lawrence, Abbott, 17, 18, 19, 24, 162 Lawrence, Mass., population of immi- grant groups in, 10-12, 24, 27, 42-43, 68, 95; immigrants in during 1912 strike, 10-11; importance of immigra- tion to, 11, 197-98; as immigrant center, 12; image of in 1912, 12; as model town, 17-26; location, 17; founding, 17-20, 27; rural qualities, 20-21, 65, 132; idealism in, 23-24; map of immigrant centers in, 25; early workers in, 26; disease in, 29, 62-64, 66, 76; death rate in, 29, 64, 66, 76; population of, 42, 43, 68, 71-72, 95; attempts to restore model town, 60-65; intellectual movements in, 60-61; appearance of, 61; tene- ments in, 70; decline of intellectual interests in, 79; marriages in, 102-5; birth rate in, 105-6; death of babies in, 106-7; movement west from, 132; return home from, 133; organizations


in, 138-53; progressive reforms ın, 177; meaning of, 202-5


Lawrence, William, 162-63, 167 Lawrence Amalgamated Short Time Committee, 135


Lawrence American, 28, 40, 41, 48, 51,


54, 82, 105, 130, 149, 151, 155


Lawrence Brass Band, 35


Lawrence Common, 19, 20, 21, 27, 111, 181, 201


Lawrence Courier, defends Irish, 41;


mentioned, 24, 26, 31-35, 37-38, 130 Lawrence Cricket Club, 140


Lawrence General Hospital, 63-64


Lawrence-Haverhill brawl, 58


Lawrence Journal, attacks priests, 55; mentioned, 47, 49, 54, 56, 57, 61, 88,


91, 115, 131, 146, 150, 155-56, 158, 159, 162, 167


Lawrence Morning News, 54


Lawrence Mozart Association, 61


Lawrence Sentinel, 35, 40, 41, 46, 48, 115, 151


Lawrence strike (1912), interest in, 3-7; relation to Progressive move- ment, 4, 177; unions in, 6-7, 192; and immigration restriction, 9; no- toriety of, 12; start of, 179-80; pa- rades in, 181; dynamite in, 181-85; violence in, 179-83; aftermath, 183- 84, 195-96; removal of children dur- ing, 183; settlement of, 183; meaning of, 184, 189-90, 193-94; role of na- tionality in, 184-90; Irish in, 184-85; French Canadians in, 185-86; English in, 186; Germans in, 186; Italians in, 186-88; Syrians in, 187-88; Fran- co-Belgians in, 188; nativism during, 190; search for security in, 190-94; immigrant organizations in, 193; rad- icalism in, 193-94; mentioned, 8, 13, 67, 135, 202, 205 Lawrence survey, 72, 177 Leader, 184-85


League of Nations, 199


Leeds, England, 130


Lewis, Lena Morrow, 8


Liberty Loan drives, 198


Library, public, 60, 79.


See also


Franklin Library Association Liquor licenses, 59, 151 Literacy test, 10


Lithuanians, arrival, 69; Citizens' Club, 69; location, 69; organizations, 69, 138-53 · passim; church, 69; real


245


INDEX


estate, 131; cooperative, 143; men- tioned, 11, 78, 108, 164, 189, 201


Liverpool, 27


Local 20 (I.W.W.), 180, 186, 193


Lodge, Henry Cabot, 9


Londonderry Pike, 17


Loom fixers, 118, 120, 187


LoPezzi, Annie, 12, 182, 184, 187, 195


Lowell, 17, 62, 65, 118, 131


Lynch, Mayor, 151 Lyra Singing Society, 44, 141


McAleer, Frank, 65 McCarty, Patrick, 132


McCorey, Peter, 53


McKenna, John, 115


Mahoney, Judge, 184


Manchester, England, 130


Manchester, N.H., 62, 89


Mann, Horace, 23


Marad, Farris, 181, 188


Marriage, rate, 102; statistics for work- ers, 102n; among ethnic groups, 103- 5; most typical marriages, 105. Martin, John, 8 Marvin, Winthrop L., 6, 8


Massachusetts Board of Health, 68, 76 Massachusetts Sanitary Commission, 29 Matthes Hall, 145


May Day Parade, 184


Meagher, T. F., 28, 45


Measles epidemic in 1878, 106 Men and Religion Forward movement, 196


Merrimack River, 10, 11, 17, 19, 48, 61, 62, 65, 109


Merrimack Valley, 17, 27, 62, 179 Merrimack Manufacturing Company, 17


Methuen Street, 20, 21 Milanese, Father, 69, 187-88, 192


Mills, 1912 strike, 3-13, 177-94; con- struction of, 19, 30; boarding houses of, 21-22, 27; collapse of Pemberton, 31-32; wages in, 31, 118-20, 183, 191; Pacific Mills strike, 52-53; ac- cidents in, 75; disease from, 75-76; violation of contract labor law by, 92-93; Washington Mills strikes, 94; source of workers, 113-15; efforts to find security in, 113-37; strict control of workers in, 115-16; hours of work in, 120-21; 1919 strike, 200-2; men- tioned, 60, 119, 124, 191 Mills, Hiram, 62


Mission cases, 117


Montreal cotton mills, 115


Most, Johann, 169-70


Mountains, 65 Mount Lebanon, 11, 70


Muckraking magazines, articles on Law- rence strike, 5


Mulvaney, Patrick, 78 Murphy, J. T., 100 Murphy, Patrick, 130


Nashua, N.H., 62


National Industrial Union of Textile Workers (I.W.W.), 135


National Labor Union, 134-35 National Union of Textile Workers (A.F.L.), 134


Native-born, occupations, 123, 126-27; mentioned, 184. See also Nativism Nativism, "Black House" riot, 32; anti-


Irish in 1850's, 32-41; Know-Nothing movement, 34-41; 1854 riot, 35-36; anti-Irish in 1870's, 48-51; anti- Breen, 51-52; anti-Irish Catholics in 1880's, 56-57; Saint Mary's flag af- fair, 81; in elections of 1890's, 81-83; A.P.A., 84-88; anti-Southeastern European immigrants, 90-92; in 1912 strike, 190; after 1912 strike, 197; mentioned, 95 Natural History Society, 61 Naturalization, 146, 167-68, 196


New England Turnfest, 152


New Republic, 8


Newspapers, French-Canadian, 43n, 156-58; native press, 154-55; immi- grant press, 155-62; Irish, 155-56; German, 158-60; on imperalism, 160; Syrian, 160-61; Americanism, 161- 62; mentioned, 139, 146. See indi- vidual newspapers


New York Call, 7, 75, 183, 201 New York Times, 53, 180, 182 "No God, No Country," 195 North American Review, 9


Oakdale Club, 154 Oak Street, 36, 72, 111


Occupations, of politicians, 39; previous of mill workers, 114-15; by nation- ality in 1880 and 1900, 122-29; pro- fessions, 128-29


O'Donnel, Father, 39 Ogilvie, John, 53, 171 O'Keefe, Katherine, 58, 86-87, 146, 185


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INDEX


Old Black Star Line, 100


O'Mahoney, John, 45


O'Neill, James, 52, 57


Orangemen, 48, 87, 140, 144


O'Reilly, James, attacks nativism, 81; accomplishments, 164; background, 164; beliefs, 165; labor views, 165; conservatism, 166; Americanism, 166-67; and strike of 1912, 184-85; "God and Country" parade, 195-96; mentioned, 138, 139, 178, 192, 197, 199


Organizations, Irish, 28; French-Ca- nadian, 42; English, 43-44; German, 44; Italian, 69; southeastern Euro- pean, 69; Polish, 69; Lithuanian, 69; Syrian, 70; security through, 138-53; pattern of formation of, 138-53; churches, 139-40; social clubs, 140-42; benefit associations, 142-43; cooperative stores, 142- 43; and the old country, 145; intel- lectual groups, 146; political groups, 146-52; state conventions, 151-52; hyphenate groups, 152; chart of, 153; mentioned, 193


Osgood, Josiah, 38


O'Sullivan, Mary K., 7 O'Sullivan, William, 28 Outlook, 5 Overseers of the Poor, 117


Pacific Mills, library, 22; boarding houses, 22; wages at, 118; mentioned, 30, 52-53, 75, 94, 115, 177, 180 Pacific Mills strike (1882), 52-53, 94 Padrone system, 69


Page, Francis, 88


Panic of 1873, 118 Park Street, 111


Parnell, Charles Stewart, 46


Parochial schools, 86 Passing of the Great Race, 10 Paterson, N.J., 7, 53


Paterson strike of 1912, 7


Peasant origins of Lawrence mill work- ers, 115


Pelletier, Attorney General, 184 Pemberton disaster, 31 Pemberton Mill, 31, 115 Pilot, 48


Pinchot, Mrs. Gifford, 5


Pinkerton detectives, in 1912 strike, 181 Pitocchelli, Fabrizio, 69, 188 Pittman, Ernest, 184


"Plains," 21, 27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 41, 45, 49, 57, 109, 147, 195 Pleasant Valley, 131-32 Pneumonia, 76


Poles, in hospital, 64; arrival, 69; lo- cation, 69; organizations, 69, 138-53 passim; church, 69, 139; food, 74; riot, 77; apartments, 108; occupa- tions, 114, 123, 126, 129; wages, 121; real estate, 131; schools, 198; men- tioned, 11, 78, 117, 189, 192 Police force, 23, 52 Polish pogroms, 198


Politics, changes in 1850's, 33-35; Know-Nothing party, 36-38; Repub- lican party, 38-41; Democratic party, 39, 51-52; gerrymandering, 49-50, 56-57; clubs, 139; immigrants in, 147- 52; naturalization and voting, 167- 69. See also Democratic party, Re- publican party, Elections Pollano, Walter, 193


Portuguese, 11, 111, 139, 152, 153, 157, 164, 189, 193


Precinct boundaries, 148 Presbyterian church, 139 Priddy, Al, 5


Progrès, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 101, 114, 117, 150, 151, 156-62


Proletario, 7


Property owned by immigrants, 130-31 Prospect Hill, 19, 21, 26, 41, 44, 48, 61, 109, 132, 147, 149


Prospect Mill, 180, 186 Prospect Street, 65 Protective societies, 139, 142-43


Purgante, 193


Quebec, 11, 27


Radicalism, I.W.W., 3, 6-7, 177-93 passim; socialism, 3, 4-8, 169-73; reputation of Lawrence, 4, 12, 169; German, 169-70; Socialist party, 169- 73; Socialist Labor party, 169-73; non-German, 170-71; in 1912 strike, 193; in 1919 strike, 200-2. See also Anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World, Socialists


Redistricting between 1896 and 1900, 171


Regan, Father D. D., 53 Reichwagen, August, 44 Rent in 1876, 119


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INDEX


Republican party, 8, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 51, 57, 87, 148, 149-50, 167 Riots, "Black House," 32; in 1854, 35- 36; Irish-Orange, 47-48; mentioned, 33, 40-41, 58, 77-78, 88-89, 189 Riverside Literary Society, 60 Rocco, Angelo, 179, 186, 197, 200 Roller polo, 65 Roy, Charles, 43 Russell Sage Foundation Study of Law- rence, 12


Russians, in hospital, 64; arrival, 68-69; Jews, 92, 115; previous occupations, 114; occupations, 123, 126; men- tioned, 117, 200


Saint Anne's Church, 42 Saint George's Day, 144


Saint Jean de Baptiste Society, 42, 131, 141, 143, 154, 198 Saint Joseph's Day, 144 Saint Laurence's Church, 69


Saint Mary's Church, school, 68, 165; flag-raising episode, 81; calendar, 94, 164, 196; mentioned, 28, 138 Saint Michael Polish Society, 198 Saint Patrick's Day, 45, 58, 65, 143-44


Saliba, Joseph, 70, 131


Salvation Army, 53-54


San Francisco earthquake, 131-32


Sangerfest, 152 Sanitary Commission, 22 Saunders, Daniel, 18


Savings, Augustinian Bank, 54-55; lack of on arrival, 117; bank deposits, 130; property-owned, 130-31; church- es, 131; in 1912 strike, 191 Saxony, 11, 44 Shanties, 27-28, 31, 41, 66, 109, 147 Shapleigh, Elizabeth, 75


Shattuck, Lemuel, 22


Shepard, James, 52 Sheridan Dramatic Club, 146


Scanlon, Mayor, 184-85, 192 Scarlet fever epidemic, 66 Schaake, Albert, 199 Schiller's birthday, 144 School Committee, 23, 40, 56, 60, 63, 82, 83, 87, 154, 164, 196 Schools, attendance, 33; reforms, 60; mentioned, 79-80 Scots, in hospital, 64; previous oc- cupations, 114; clans, 152; men- tioned, 11, 114, 117, 144, 145, 153, 171. See also British


Sewage, 29, 61 Sherman Agency detectives, 184 Short Time movement, 120 Silesia, 11, 44 Slums. See Homes


Smallpox, 63 Social clubs. See Organizations Socialism, 141, 160, 166


Socialists, and Socialist Labor party, 6, 171, 172, 193; and Socialist party, 171-72, 193; vote for, 172; men- tioned, 170, 173, 186, 200 Solidarity, on Lawrence Strike, 3, 7 Sons of Israel, 142


Southeastern Europeans, in Lawrence strike, 10; arrival, 68; organizations, 69, 138-53 passim; fill tenements, 70; location, 72; crimes of, 77; antipathy toward, 92, 116; endogamy among, 104; wages of, 121; occupations of, 126; in 1912 strike, 188-89; men- tioned, 11, 74, 78, 112, 116, 152 South Lawrence, 26, 109, 132, 147 Spanish-American War flag-raising, 154 Spicket River, 17, 19, 20-21, 44, 49, 57, 61, 72, 107, 109 "Starvation Alley," 66


Steffens, Lincoln, at Lawrence strike, 3 Stephens, James, 45-46


Stephens wing of Fenians, 45-46


Stiegler, August, 44


Stiegler, Emil, 51, 63


Street lighting, 61


Strikes, of 1912, 3-13, 177-94; 1912


. strike hearings, 12, 74, 191; of 1882, 52-53; Arlington, 93; of 1894, 94; of 1902, 94, 159; of 1919, 200-2. See also Lawrence strike, Pacific Mills strike, Washington Mills strike


Storrow, Charles, 18, 23


Sullivan, Jeremiah T., 86


Sullivan, John J., 184


Sullivan, Maria, 32


Sunday Register, 86


Sunday Sun, 155 Survey, on Lawrence strike, 7 Sweeney, General, 45-46


Sweeney, John, 54-55, 58


Sweeney, Patrick, 81, 131


Sweeney family, attacks Augustinian priests, 54-55; rift with Breen, 55-57;


publish Journal, 58; mentioned, 146, 156 Sweeney wing of Fenians, 54-55, 58 Sweetser, Colonel, 7


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INDEX


Swimming holes, 65 Syphon Engine Company, 40 Syrians, in hospital, 64; arrival, 70; origins, 70; organizations, 70, 138- 53 passim, 181, 193; church, 70, 139, 193; location, 72, 111; overcrowding, 72-73; riot with Portuguese, 77; wages, 121; occupations, 126; news- papers, 160-62; in 1912 strike, 180, 187-88; mentioned, 12, 78, 80, 131- 32, 146, 153, 164, 198, 202


Taft, Mrs. William Howard, 5 Tarbox, James, 46


Tarbox, John K., 49, 51


Taylor, J. S., 66


Teachers, 129. See also Schools


Telegram, 90


Tenements, 66, 70-72, 76, 107, 119


Ten-Hour Clubs, 120


Ten-hour day, 134


Tewksbury, Mayor, 49


Textile Worker, 6


Textile Workers Union, 94


Tobin, John, 185


Torchlight procession, 28


Tower Hill, 19, 21, 26, 41, 109, 132, 147, 149


Tresca, Carlos, 195


Trial of a New Society, 7


Trips abroad, 100, 101


Truancy, 79


Tuberculosis, 76


Turks, arrival, 68; origins, 70


Turner Society, Turnverein, 44; choral society, 141; convention, 199; men- tioned, 138, 141, 143


Turn Hall, 131, 138, 141, 154, 169-70 Typhoid fever epidemics, 29, 62-63, 76, 106


Ukraninian massacres, 198 Unemployment, 34, 119


Union Label Monthly, 192


Union Saint Joseph, 154 Union Street, 69, 72


Unitarian Shakespeare Club, 60


United States Labor Commission, re- port on Lawrence strike, 3 United Textile Workers of America, 6


Vaccination, 63 Valley Street, 35, 72


Victory celebration in 1918, 199 Villanova, 58, 164 Vorholz, Adolph, 151 Vorse, Mary Heaton, 5 Voters, percentage voting, 168-69


Wages, in 1850's, 31; from 1870 to 1912, 118-20; and immigrant cycle, 121; in 1909, 120, 127; 1912 strike, 183, 191; mentioned, 31, 22


Walking craze, 65 Walworth, Joseph, 115


Warren, Albert, 36


Washington Fire Steamer Company, 52 Washington Mills, 115-16, 128, 179- 80, 185


Washington Mills strike, of 1894, 94; of 1902, 94


Weavers Union, 53


Wedding brawls, 78


Weefers, Barney, 66


Weekly payments movement, 135


Weekly People, 7


Welch, Patrick, 84


Weyl, Walter E., on Lawrence strike, 8


Whigs, 33-34, 36-38


White, Nathaniel, 24


White Fund, 58, 60


White Mountains, 21


White Star Line, 191


Whitman, William, 6, 8


Whooping cough epidemic, 106


Wives abroad, 100


Wood, Duncan, 44, 51, 53, 99, 135


Wood, William, 4, 6-8, 10, 115, 166, 177-78, 181, 184, 187, 192, 202 Wood Mill, 93, 115, 120, 177, 179-80


Woolen factories, 113


Wool sorters, 93, 118, 120


Workingmen's party, 134-35


Wrestling, 65 Wright, Carroll, 133


Yankees, 45 Yorkshire, 93 "Young Syria," 145 Young Men's Catholic Association, 86 Young Men's Catholic Lyceum, 61


Young Men's Hebrew Association, 142


Zionist drive, 198





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