- Collection:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection
- Title:
- Testimony of Rufus Odell
- Creator:
- Daly, A. M. (Alexander M.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Odell, Rufus
- Date of Original:
- 1915-03-17/1915-03-27
- Subject:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills--Employees--History--20th century
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Wages--Textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta
United Textile Workers of America
United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
Governmental investigations
Labor unions--Georgia--Atlanta
Work environment--Georgia--Atlanta
Industrial relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Spinning--Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textile industry--Employees
Cotton textiles--Georgia--Atlanta
Industrial housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Tents--Georgia--Atlanta
Contracts--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor union members--Georgia--Atlanta
Mills and mill-work--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile factories--Georgia--Atlanta
Child labor--Georgia--Atlanta
Women textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor contract--Georgia--Atlanta
Toilets--Georgia--Atlanta
Sanitation--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Employment--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile machinery--Georgia--Atlanta
Looms--Georgia--Atlanta
Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company
Drinking water--Georgia--Atlanta
Odell, Rufus
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915
Elsas, Oscar, 1871-1924
Elsas, Jacob, 1843-1931
Johnstone, Gordon A.
United Textile Workers of America. Local Union 886 (Atlanta, Ga.)
Anderson Manufacturing Company (Anderson, S.C.)
Dublin Manufacturing Company (Dublin, Ga.)
Swift's Cotton Mill (Elberton, Ga.)
Wilson, A. K.
Conkle, Joe
Exposition Mills (Atlanta, Ga.)
Johnson, Allen F.
Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company (Ware Shoals, S.C.)
Hawkins, Eugene W.
Lois Cotton Mills (Douglasville, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Cabbagetown, 33.748162, -84.3665927 - Medium:
- testimonies
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- A witness for the union, special officer of the Local Rufus Odell discusses previous strikes at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, his experiences with Mill management, employment contracts, living conditions in the tent colony, and fines imposed on workers by the Mill.
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Exhibit is a joint project between the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center's Archives and Records Management, Digital Initiatives, and Systems departments. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://exhibit-archive.library.gatech.edu/fulton_bag/item6c4c.html?collection=ms004&filename=ms004-006.xml
- Rights Holder:
- Please cite [Folder Title, Series and Subseries Title,] Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills records, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Extent:
- 24 p. ; 8.5"x11"
- Original Collection:
- Box 8, Folder 10 Odell, Rufus (R.O.) March 1915, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills records, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department
- Rights:
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