IWW Strike - Draper Company, 1913
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.
Massachusetts Archives.
Cemetery, Milford. More on the strike Draper response, Cotton Chats, April 1913 The Hopedale Strike of 1913: The Unmaking of an Industrial Utopia Teaching unit on the strike Draper Menu HOME . |
Emilio Bacchiocchi |
Bacchiocci stone at St. Mary's Cemetery, Milford, Massachusetts. |