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"Application for a Situation with Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills [for F. W. Lake]"
Date: 1918 April 12
Document Type: Application
Unique ID: ms004-254
Description: This document provides an example of the employment application used by Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
"General Conditions Surrounding St. Louis Labor Trouble"
Date: 1918 April 18
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-252
Description: This report describes labor disputes with management at the St. Louis branch of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
Letter from A.J.M. to Oscar Elsas
Date: 1921 August 07
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-230
Description: In this letter, an operative informs Oscar Elsas that operative #259 has been lying about reports of secret meetings and has a "vindictive and foul mind." The author reccommends that #259's services been discontinued.
Letter from Charles E. White to Oscar Elsas
Date: 1919 May 27
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-249
Description: In this letter Charles White updates Oscar Elsas on mill operations in St. Louis.
Letter from Charles E. White to Oscar Elsas
Date: 1919 May 21
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-247
Description: In this letter Charles White updates Oscar Elsas on mill operations in St. Louis.
Letter from F. W. Stockmar, Railway Audit and Inspection Company to Charles E. White, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
Date: 1921 April 21
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-250
Description: In this letter, F. W. Stockmar informs C. W. White of a new detective agency and assures him that the Railway Audit and Inspection Company wants to keep working with Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
Letter from Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills to James S. Alexander, National Bank of Commerce
Date: 1914 July 03
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-120
Description: In this letter, the management of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills attempts to persuade Atlanta's business community leaders that the Men and Religion Movement's leaders are acting in a way detrimental towards local business and industry.
Letter from Harry Preston, Railway Audit and Inspection Company, to Oscar Elsas
Date: 1920 January 08
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-221
Description: In this letter, Harry Preston informs Oscar Elsas of the availabilty of Isaac L. Jones (#396), an African-American operative, who can work as a laborer in the Mill.
Letter from Jacob Elsas to James R. Gray, The Atlanta Journal
Date: 1914 August 07
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-118
Description: In this letter, Jacob Elsas complains that paid advertisements run in the Atlanta Journal have been unfair and biased against Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in favor of the strikers.
Letter from John W. Weccard, American Detective Service Company, to G. A. Johnstone, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
Date: 1918 June 11
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-205
Description: In this letter, John W. Weccard details charges for the services of various operatives in the Mill.
Letter from Louis J. Elsas to C. B. Wilmer
Date: 1914 July 11
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-122
Description: In this letter, Louis J. Elsas defends his brother Oscar Elsas' decision not to meet with C. J. Wilmer, due to articles published by Wilmer which were unfavorable to the company.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Charles E. White
Date: 1919 May 23
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-248
Description: In this letter Oscar Elsas warns Charles E. White not to uncover an operative working in the St. Louis mill.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to F. A. Weiss, Wolston Manufacturing Company
Date: 1915 April 23
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-106
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas warns F. A. Weiss of the Wolston Manufacturing Company that labor leader Sara Conboy is planning to exchanged strikers between the on-going strikes at the two companies.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to H. P. Meikleham, Massachusetts Mills in Georgia
Date: 1915 May 14
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-110
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas discusses strategies for speaking at an annual meeting of Georgia textile mill owners.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Harry Preston, Railway Audit and Inspection Company
Date: 1920 January 16
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-222
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas informs Harry Preston of his acceptance of employment of Isaac L. Jones (#396), an African-American operative, who will work as a laborer in the Mill.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to John Y. Phillips
Date: 1915 May 01
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-108
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas assures a customer that the Mill is not affected by the strike, and is running at full capacity. The collection contains many such letters to different types of customers.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Richard Sloss
Date: 1915 March 18
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-066
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas attempts to persuade Judge Richard Sloss that the hearings held by the Commission on Industrial Relations not be swayed by public prejudice due the the Leo Franks case or misrepresentation of facts by labor organizers.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Victor Elsas
Date: 1920 September 07
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-242
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas reminds his brother Victor Elsas not to discuss matters reagrding mill operatives with local agents.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Victor Elsas
Date: 1920 August 06
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-243
Description: IIn this letter, Oscar Elsas reminds his brother Victor Elsas of a new operative that will work as a machinist in the New Orleans mill.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Walter Drew, National Erectors' Association
Date: 1915 June 30
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-111
Description: This letter details negotiations between Oscar Elsas and a person named Massey to purchase copies of strikers' testimonies.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Walter Drew, National Erectors' Association
Date: 1915 July 07
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-112
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas questions the impartiality of the interviewer, A. M. Daly, in the investigation of the textile industry by the Commission on Industrial Relations.
Letter from Thomas S. Florence, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, to T. Grady Head, State Revenue Comissioner
Date: 1938 July 06
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-256
Description: In this letter, Thomas S. Florence asks the Georgia State Revenue Commissioner for his support in the removal of a liquor store near the mill village.
Letter from Victor Elsas to Oscar Elsas
Date: 1920 September 03
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-241
Description: In this letter, Victor Elsas tells his brother Oscar Elsas that a new operative will be hired to work undercover as a machinist.
[Notes on witnesses]
Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Notes
Unique ID: ms004-062
Description: This list contains the names of the witnesses who will testify before the Commission of Industrial Relations as well as summaries of their testimonies.
"Notices Given June 8/14"
Date: 1914 June 08
Document Type: Notes
Unique ID: ms004-050
Description: These notes list workers who quit the Mill on June 8, 1914.
[Operative notes]
Date: 1914 June 03
Document Type: Notes
Unique ID: ms004-047
Description: These notes record the lyrics of songs about the Mills and its management, sung to "John Brown's Body" and "How Dry I Am."
"Report from Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, Atlanta GA"
Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-063
Description: This report describes working conditions at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, including stastics, hours of operation, pay, benefits, and contract terms. NOTE: This item is a large sheet of paper. It has been scanned in quarters. The last page is slightly cropped at the top, due to the folds of the original pages.
[Report of Operative #185]
Date: 1918 April 23
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-202
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers, and makes suggestions as to how the Mill might work more efficiently.
"Report of Operative #713"
Date: 1918 December 31
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-211
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on a suspected theft from the Mill by a worker. In a handwritten note on the letter, Mill management suggests that guards stop the worker on his way out of the Mill and examine him.
[Statement on strikes at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Altanta, Georgia]
Date: 1914 December 15
Document Type: Statement
Unique ID: ms004-090
Description: In this statement, the management of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills defends itself against allegations of the strikers in the areas of fines, wages, sanitary conditions, welfare work, kindergarden, and the tent colony.
[Summons for Oscar Elsas to appear before the Commission on Industrial Relations]
Date: 1915 March 15
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-064
Description: This summons requests Oscar Elsas to testify before the Commission on Industrial Relations on March 22, 1915.
[Testimony of E. H. Rogers]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-024
Description: A witness for the Mill, E. H. Rogers, Superintendent of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, discusses working conditions in the Mill, labor organization, and employment policies of the Mill.
[Testimony of Oscar Elsas]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-026
Description: A witness for the Mill, Oscar Elsas, President of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, discusses the value of the company, employment policies of the Mill, employee savings accounts, negotiations with labor leaders, wages, and strikes at the Mill.
[Testimony of P. A. Smith]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-025
Description: A witness for the Mill, P. A. Smith, Overseer of Spinning of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, discusses employment policies of the Mill.
[Testimony of Rufus Odell]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-006
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 Mote in Your Neighbor's Eyes, the Beam in Your Own"
Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Draft
Unique ID: ms004-065
Description: In this statement, the management of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills defends the companies against what it sees as unjust attacks upon it by the Men and Religion Movement.

[Clarence Elsas with a Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills bag]
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Date: [1953 February]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029d
Description:
[Employees in the Mill office]
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Date: [1963]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-030d
Description: Photograph is blurry.
[Group Portrait of Troy Stone, Norman Elsas, and Herman Talmadge]
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Date: ca. 1950 -1960
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-008a
Description:
[Group Portrait of Troy Stone, Norman Elsas, and Herman Talmadge]
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Date: ca. 1950 -1960
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-008
Description:
[Office at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills]
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Date: [1907]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-020
Description:
[Portrait of Charles P. Wood]
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Date: ca. 1950 -1960
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-007
Description:
[Portrait of Fred McCall]
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Date: ca. 1940 -1960
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-005
Description:
[Portrait of Norman Elsas]
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Date: [1952]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-003
Description:
[Portrait of Oscar Elsas]
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Date: ca. 1914 -1923
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-004
Description: Oscar Elsas was president of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills from 1914 to 1923, during the strike.
[Portrait of Stephen C. Hale]
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Date: [1954]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-002
Description:
[Portrait of Troy Stone]
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Date: ca. 1950 -1960
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-006
Description:
[Troy Stone with a Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills bag]
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Date: [1953 February]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029e
Description: