| "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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| [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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| [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 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 on strikes at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Altanta, Georgia] |
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| 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. |
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