| [Testimony of R. F. Irwin] |
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| Date: |
[1915 March 17-27] |
| Document Type: |
Testimony |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-010 |
| Description: |
A witness for the Mill, R. F. Irwin claims that labor leaders Ola Delight Smith and Charles A. Miles propositioned him to aid them in blowing up Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills with dynamite. |
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| [Testimony of Andrew Jackson Clark] |
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| Date: |
[1915 March 17-27] |
| Document Type: |
Testimony |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-013 |
| Description: |
A witness for the Mill, carpenter and boarding house owner Andrew Jackson Clark discusses a conversation with labor leaders Ola Delight Smith and Charles A. Miles in which they asked where they could purchase dynamite in order to blow up the Mill-run boarding house. |
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| [Testimony of Jennie Clinton] |
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| Date: |
[1915 March 17-27] |
| Document Type: |
Testimony |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-018 |
| Description: |
A witness for the Mill, Mill worker Jennie Clinton discusses walking out with the strikers, threats made against her by strikers when she left to return to work, and living conditions in the Mill village. |
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| [Statement of Lonnie Middlebrooks] |
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| Date: |
1914 May 22 |
| Document Type: |
Statement |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-032 |
| Description: |
Lonnie Middlebrooks' official statement reads as follows: "I was sitting on the steps of the home of Mr. St. John between 9 and 8 o'clock of the morning of May 21st 1914 when officer [illegible] of the city police came along and entered into conversation with me. I asked him what he was doing here and he replied that he was down here 'to keep these damned Jews from getting killed.'" |
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| [Statement of Arthur Watson] |
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| Date: |
1914 May 26 |
| Document Type: |
Testimony |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-033 |
| Description: |
Arthur Watson's official statement reads as follows: "I was in front of 64 Carroll St. about 2:30pm Sunday afternoon May 24th, when I head J. A. Strickland say 'I would like to see the time come around when I could help to kill Oscar Elsas and all of his son of a bitch pimps.' He said this in the presence of Charles Mathis, Otis Thomason and myself, besides several others." |
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| [Statement of Otis A. Thomason] |
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| Date: |
1914 May 25 |
| Document Type: |
Statement |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-0331 |
| Description: |
Otis A. Thompson's official statement reads as follows: ""I was in front of 64 Carroll Street, about 2:30pm Sunday afternoon May 24th, when I heard J. A. Strickland say 'I would like to see the time come around, when I could help to kill Oscar Elsas and all of his son of a bitch pimps.' He said this in the presence of Chas Mathis, Arthur Watson and myself, besides several others." |
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| [Statement of Charles Mathis] |
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| Date: |
1914 May 25 |
| Document Type: |
Statement |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-0332 |
| Description: |
Charles Mathis' official statement reads as follows: ""I was in front of 64 Carroll Street, about 2:30pm Sunday afternoon May 24th, when I heard J. A. Strickland say 'I would like to see the time come around, when I could help to kill Oscar Elsas and all of his son of a bitch pimps.' He said this in the presence of Otis Thomason, Arthur Watson and myself, besides several others." |
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| [Threat note to Mrs. Burdett] |
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| Date: |
1914 July 10 |
| Document Type: |
Letter |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-034 |
| Description: |
This hand-written note to Mrs. Burdett warns her not to testify on behalf of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. The note reads: "Mrs. Burdett if you go an sware fo the co. yo will wish yo hadt. If all you got burnt up the co. will not give you no more. Take warnin an keep yor mouth of the coin." |
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| [Threat note to Mrs. Hardman] |
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| Date: |
1914 July 10 |
| Document Type: |
Letter |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-035 |
| Description: |
This hand-written note to Mrs. Hardman warns her not to allow her children to work for the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. The note reads: "Mrs. Hardman ples stop yor boys from work in Fulton Mill an sav troubl. We ar goin to stop it if we hav to use force. Tak warnin." |
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| "Statement by Melvin Manus" |
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| Date: |
1914 May 23 |
| Document Type: |
Statement |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-037 |
| Description: |
In his statement, Melvin Manus details various intimidation methods used by the strikers. He and his whife overheard C. A. Henson and the Williams family, who were strikers, say that "if the balance of the help did not all come out of the Mill they were bound to get a whipping." He states a crowd of strikers and railroad workers threatened that "all houses which the Company had caused to be vacated by those taking part in the strike would be burned." He was also told that Harris Gober had said that if he and his wife did not join the strike, Gober would stop their groceries. |
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| [Operative notes] |
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| Date: |
1914 May 29 |
| Document Type: |
Notes |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-046 |
| Description: |
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills hired several agents to spy on the activities of strike organizers and workers in the Mill. These notes concern an incident where shots were fired on Carroll Street but no fighting occurred, as well as the activities of female strikers. |
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| "Reward!" |
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| Date: |
ca. 1914 |
| Document Type: |
Flyer |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-054 |
| Description: |
The flyer offers a one hundred dollar reward for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for assaulting Howard Sims, a Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills worker. |
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| Letter from the Cue Cluck Rangers to Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills |
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| Date: |
1922 July 26 |
| Document Type: |
Letter |
| Unique ID: |
ms004-231 |
| Description: |
This letter, from an anonymous group most likely associated with the Ku Klux Klan, mentions the Leo Frank case. |
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