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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.
"Average Weekly Earnings of Some Family Groups"
Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Notes
Unique ID: ms004-053
Description: This document details the average weekly earnings of families employeed by Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
[Draft of statement on education]
Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Draft
Unique ID: ms004-059
Description: In this statement, the company describes its policies regarding the education of the workers employed by the Mill.
[Draft of statement on savings]
Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Draft
Unique ID: ms004-058
Description: In this report, the company describes its encouragement of employees to save money, and cites a specific example of a pair of weavers, S. J. Jenkins and his wife.
[Excerpt of a petition for police protection from strikers by employees of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills]
Date: ca. 1914
Document Type: Petition
Unique ID: ms004-114
Description: In this petition, workers from Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills ask the Atlanta police for more protection, claiming they are being disturbed and harrassed by strikers. Original item has 24 pages. Only the first page has been scanned.
Letter from Operative #741B, Sherman Service, to F. H. Neely, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
Date: 1918 September 06
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-207
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers, and working conditions in the Mill.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Robert H. Wright
Date: 1914 January 25
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-094
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas replys to Robert H. Wright's apology for his involvement in the strike and his request for his job back.
"List of Foreign-Born People Working with Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, Atlanta, GA"
Date: [1917]
Document Type: Census
Unique ID: ms004-251
Description: This report lists all foreign-born employees of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta at the time of World War I.
[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 #429, Special Work, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills"
Date: 1916 September 12
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-199
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers and labor organizers.
"Operative #429, Special Work, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills"
Date: 1916 September 11
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-198
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers and labor organizers.
"Operative #429, Special Work, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills"
Date: 1916 September 10
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-197
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers.
"Operative #429, Special Work, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills"
Date: 1916 August 22
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-195
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers.
"Operative #429, Special Work, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills"
Date: 1916 September 09
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-196
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers and labor organizers.
[Operative notes]
Date: 1914 June 14
Document Type: Notes
Unique ID: ms004-043
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 threats to non-striking workers and female strikers.
[Operative notes]
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.
[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 #115"
Date: 1914 September 09
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-148
Description: In this report, an operative describes continuing low spirits in the strikers' tent colony.
"Report of Operative #115"
Date: 1914 June 27
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-142
Description: In this report, an operative describes speeches given by Marion M. Jackson, Secretary Miller, William E. Flemming, Ola Delight Smith, and Conboy. He also reports on unrest amoung legitimate workers regarding "bums" and "hangers-on."
"Report of Operative #115"
Date: 1914 September 17
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-149
Description: In this report, an operative describes continuing low spirits in the strikers' tent colony and states that he has been circulating a petition asking for relief of conditions in the tent colony to be presented to the strike leaders.
"Report of Operative #115"
Date: 1914 July 05
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-143
Description: In this report, an operative reports a talk with a striking loom-fixer and his dissatisfaction with the "bums" taking advantage of the strike, and that the leaders were "running things to suit themselves". Labor leaders Ola Delight Smith and Charles A. Miles are attempting to stop this sort of talk , and the operative must use discretion in speaking about it.
"Report of Operative #115"
Date: 1914 September 08
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-147
Description: In this report, an operative describes low spirits in the strikers' tent colony.
[Report of Operative #16]
Date: 1915 June 25
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-188
Description: In this report, an operative describes the construction of an effigy of Georgia Governor John M. Slaton, and strikers' plans to burn it in Inman Park.
[Report of Operative #18]
Date: 1919 November 09
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-216
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers, particularly of alcohol use in the mill village.
[Report of Operative #18]
Date: 1919 October 13
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-215
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers, particularly of alcohol use in the mill village.
[Report of Operative #185]
Date: 1918 May 15
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-203
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 #226"
Date: 1919 July 13
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-214
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers, and living conditions in the mill village.
[Report of Operative #251]
Date: 1921 September 10
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-228
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and mill operations, including loom operation.
[Report of Operative #251]
Date: 1921 August 29
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-227
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and mill operations, including loom operation.
[Report of Operative #251]
Date: 1921 August 23
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-226
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and mill operations, including a cut in the help's pay.
[Report of Operative #251]
Date: 1921 August 22
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-225
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and mill operations.
[Report of Operative #251]
Date: 1921 August 10
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-224
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and mill operations.
[Report of Operative #251]
Date: 1921 August 07
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-223
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and working conditions in the mill.
[Report of Operative #251]
Date: 1921 October 17
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-229
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and race relations in the Mill.
[Report of Operative #259]
Date: 1919 November 13
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-217
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mills describes the activities of mill workers.
[Report of Operative #316]
Date: 1920 January 06
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-264
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and mill operations.
[Report of Operative #316]
Date: 1919 May 21
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-246
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and working conditions in the Mill.
[Report of Operative #316]
Date: 1920 January 05
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-218
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and mill operations.
[Report of Operative #316]
Date: 1920 February 23
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-220
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and working conditions in the mill.
[Report of Operative #316]
Date: 1920 January 23
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-219
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and working conditions in the mill.
[Report of Operative #331]
Date: 1922 August 16
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-232
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers.
[Report of Operative #360]
Date: 1918 September 10
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-245
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and working conditions in the Mill.
[Report of Operative #429]
Date: 1916 September 26
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-200
Description: In this report, an operative describes the activities of mill workers and bosses, and details his attempts to get close to labor leader William Flemming.
"Report of Operative #457"
Date: 1915 January 14
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-174
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and strikers.
"Report of Operative #457"
Date: 1914 December 15
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-172
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill, including an injury to an employee.
"Report of Operative #457"
Date: 1914 December 06
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-171
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and labor leaders Charles A Miles, Ola Delight Smith, and Sara Conboy.
"Report of Operative #457"
Date: 1914 November 13
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-168
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the actions and attitudes of other mill workers towards the strike.
"Report of Operative #457"
Date: 1914 November 06
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-167
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill.
"Report of Operative #457"
Date: 1914 October 30
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-166
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the actions and attitudes of other mill workers towards the strike.
"Report of Operative #470"
Date: 1914 August 19
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-164
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill.
"Report of Operative #470"
Date: 1914 August 14
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-163
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill. He also tells of his attempts to infiltrate the Union.
"Report of Operative #470"
Date: 1914 August 12
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-162
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill.
"Report of Operative #470"
Date: 1914 August 05
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-161
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill.
"Report of Operative #470"
Date: 1914 August 03
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-160
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill.
"Report of Operative #470"
Date: 1914 August 01
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-159
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of other mill workers and on conditions in the Mill and mill village.
[Report of Operative #52]
Date: 1918 August 24
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-208
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers, their attitudes toward World War I, and working conditions in the Mill.
[Report of Operative #52]
Date: 1918 August 28
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-209
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers, their attitudes toward World War I, and working conditions in the Mill.
[Report of Operative #52]
Date: 1918 September 20
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-210
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers, their attitudes toward World War I, and working conditions in the Mill.
"Report of Operative #556"
Date: 1919 March 10
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-213
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers.
"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.
"Report of Operative #798"
Date: 1919 February 15
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-212
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the activities of mill workers.
"Report of Operative G.J.M."
Date: 1914 July 03
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-153
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the actions and attitudes of other mill workers towards the strike.
[Report of Operative G.J.M.]
Date: 1914 July 15
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-154
Description: In this report, an operative working in the Mill reports on the actions and attitudes of other mill workers towards the strike.
[Report of Operatives #259, #249, and #18]
Date: 1918 November 07-10
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-255
Description: In this report, operatives describe alcohol smuggling activities among mill workers.
"Reward!"
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.
"Statement by Melvin Manus"
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.
"Strikers' Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1"
Date: 1914 July 18
Document Type: Newsletter
Unique ID: ms004-083
Description: In this propaganda newsletter, the Atlanta Federation of Trades describes the living and working conditions of the mill workers during the strike.
[Testimony of George Medlock]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-003
Description: A witness for the union, spinner George Medlock discusses being injuried on the job and forfeiting his pay while he was unable to work.
[Testimony of Lina McFarland]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-004
Description: A witness for the union, spinner Lina McFarland discusses starting to work at the Mills at age eleven, her lack of eduction, and working conditions in the Mills.
[Testimony of Sarah Nations]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-002
Description: A witness for the union, spooler Sarah Nations discusses wages, company housing, and fines at the Mills.

[Children of a mill worker in the Mill]
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Date: [1963 December]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-030b
Description:
[Children of mill workers in the Mill]
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Date: [1963 December]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-030a
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[Female mill workers at a vending machine]
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Date: ca. 1953
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029g
Description:
[Female mill workers on break]
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Date: ca. 1953
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029c
Description:
[Female mill workers on break]
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Date: ca. 1953
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029b
Description:
[Female mill workers on break]
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Date: ca. 1953
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029
Description:
[Group portrait of female mill workers]
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Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-016
Description: Unidentified female Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills workers.
[Lunch cart vendor and mill worker]
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Date: ca. 1953
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029h
Description:
[Mill management serving refreshments in the Mill]
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Date: [1963 December]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-030
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[Mill worker and management in the Mill]
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Date: [1963 July]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-030c
Description:
[Mill workers on break]
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Date: ca. 1953
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-029f
Description:
[Reproduction of a letter from Lola Church to Oscar Elsas]
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Date: [1915 March 05]
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: vam004-019
Description: In this letter, Lola Church asks Oscar Elsas for her job at the Mill back after leaving during the strike. She claims that Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills "have better treatment, better pay and lighter work than any other work shop." She also states she "has no use for" the Union and gives the Mills permission to publish her letter.
[Revival meeting at Fulton Bag ballpark]
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Date: [1953]
Document Type: Photograph
Unique ID: vam004-031
Description: