IWW Strike - Draper Company, 1913

IWW Strike - Draper Company, 1913

The pages shown above are from the

weekly

Milford (Massachusetts) Gazette,

and

copied from the files at the Bancroft Library in Hopedale. (Binder in

Trustees'

Room

labeled

Gazette 1912-1913

.) I realize there are some

columns missing

in trying to follow

the sequence of these stories, and I'll

improve on that in the

future if I can. Meanwhile I

think these articles, even

though incomplete

, give

an idea of what was happening during

the strike. The

strike lasted about three

months (April 1 - July 4)

You'll see that some of the pages

cover

the days following the killing of

io (

I've

also

een it s

pelled Emi

, as in the death certificates

) Bacchiocchi

, first reported on the

second page

of the April 25

issue. I could have cropped out the local news that you'll see

some pages, but I

thought some might find a few of those items interesting.

Thanks to my son, DJ, for obtaining the Bacchiocchi death certificates at the

Massachusetts Archives.

Thanks to Giancarlo BonTempo for directions to the Bacchiocchi grave in St. Mary's

Cemetery, Milford.