- Collection:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection
- Title:
- Testimony of W.C. Sweatt
- Creator:
- Daly, A. M. (Alexander M.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Sweatt, W. C.
- Date of Original:
- 1915-03-17/1915-03-27
- Subject:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
Textile factories--Georgia--Atlanta
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
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915
Exposition Mills (Atlanta, Ga.)
Elizabeth Mills (Atlanta, Ga.)
Beck & Gregg Hardware Co. (Atlanta, Ga.)
United Textile Workers of America. Local Union 886 (Atlanta, Ga.)
Smith, O. Delight
Miles, Charles A.
Kelleher, Mary
Conboy, Sara
Golden, John, 1862-1921
Draper Brothers Company (Canton, Mass.)
Cotton textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textile industry--Employees
Governmental investigations
United Textile Workers of America
United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
Labor unions--Georgia--Atlanta
Work environment--Georgia--Atlanta
Industrial relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Health and hygiene--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Diseases--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor union members--Georgia--Atlanta
Industrial housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Diabetes--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor unions--Organizing--Georgia--Atlanta
Picketing--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile machinery--Georgia--Atlanta
Looms--Georgia--Atlanta
Wages--Textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Moral conditions--Georgia--Atlanta
Rent--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor contract--Georgia--Atlanta
Coca Cola (Trademark) - 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 Mill, former Mill worker and Acting President of the union W. C. Sweatt discusses pressure from strikers to walk out, problems supporting his family after joining the strike, living conditions in the mill village.
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/item67ce.html?collection=ms004&filename=ms004-019.xml
- Extent:
- 17 p. ; 8.5"x11"
- Original Collection:
- Box 9, Folder 1 Sweatt, W.C. (W.C.S.) 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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