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 Emilio (I've also
    seen it spelled Emidio, 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
    on 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.

                        
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Emilio Bacchiocchi

    Bacchiocci stone at St. Mary's Cemetery,
    Milford, Massachusetts.