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[Testimony of R. F. Irwin]
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.
[Testimony of H. Newbern Mullinax]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-014
Description: A witness for the union, member of the Local Textile Council H. Newbern Mullinax discusses the strike of October 1913, labor organization, living conditions in the mill village, and workers who had been discharged from the Mill.
[Testimony of W. C. Sweatt]
Date: [1915 March 17-27]
Document Type: Testimony
Unique ID: ms004-019
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.
[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.
"Strike on Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills"
Date: ca. 1914
Document Type: Flyer
Unique ID: ms004-029
Description: This flyer announces that the strike has not been settled, and that agents of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills are concealed among the mill workers and in the mill village.
[Operative notes]
Date: [1914]
Document Type: Notes
Unique ID: ms004-052
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 describe a picket line on the corner of Fair and Bulward Streets.
[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.
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 the Southern Textile Bulletin
Date: 1914 June 09
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-070
Description: In this letter, intended for dsitribution to other mill presidents, Oscar Elsas gives a summary of events surrounding the strike at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. He states that the company does not wish to give in to Union demands, since that would mean "the recognition of the unions." He also complains about the indifference of the Atlanta police force in dealing with the strikers.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to David Clark, Southern Textile Bulletin
Date: 1914 June 22
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-071
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas describes conditions at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills during the strikes. He states that "our condition is improving regularly, although the incessent and unreasonable picketting is still active." He describes a striker parade as follows: "A total of 271 were in the parade, of which not over 30 were our employees. The balance were loafers, bums, and hangers-on, who were glad to get a living off of the commissary and the Union without having to work."
Letter from Oscar Elsas to the Southern Textile Bulletin
Date: 1914 July 25
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-073
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas expresses his opinion that the best course of action to deal with the strikes at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills is not to give the unions any newspaper notoriety.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to James L. Beavers, Chief of Police, Atlanta
Date: 1914 June 04
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-075
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas asks the Atlanta Chief of Police to be more vigilant in dispersing "hangers-on" to the strike at the Mill.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Hoke Smith, U.S. Senate
Date: 1914 July 09
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-079
Description: In this telegram to U.S. Senator Hoke Smith, Oscar Elsas claims that reports of the strike have been exagerated.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to the Congressional Information Bureau
Date: 1914 September 21
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-080
Description: In this letter, Oscar Elsas asks the Congressional Information Bureau to inform Senator Hoke Smith that the upcoming investigation is unnecessary, and will disrupt the operation of the Mill.
"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.
"House Resolution 621"
Date: 1914 September 15
Document Type: Government Record
Unique ID: ms004-085
Description: This House Resolution authorizes an investigation of the conditions of the textile industry in Atlanta, Georgia.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to William Schley Howard, U.S. House of Representatives
Date: 1914 September 17
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-086
Description: In this letter to U.S. Representative William Schley Howard, Oscar Elsas urges the Congressman to stop the investigation of the textile industry and Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
"Asks Investigation for Atlanta Strike"
Date: 1914 September 16
Document Type: Article
Unique ID: ms004-087
Description: This newspaper article annouces the investigation of the textile industry in Atlanta.
Letter from Oscar Elsas to Thomas W. Hardwick, U.S. House of Representatives
Date: 1914 October 03
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-088
Description: In this letter to U.S. Representative Thomas W. Hardwick, Oscar Elsas urges the Congressman to stop the investigation of the textile industry and Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
Letter from Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills to James L. Beavers, Chief of Police, Atlanta
Date: 1914 November 25
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-089
Description: In this letter, the management of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills requests additional police presence at the Mill during the strike.
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.
[Headnotes for Jones et al. vs. Van Winkle Gin and Machine Works]
Date: ca. 1915
Document Type: Government Record
Unique ID: ms004-100
Description: The decision in the case of Jones et al. vs. Van Winkle Gin and Machine Works was favorable towards management in regards to picketting and striking by employees.
Letter from Roser, Brandon, Slaton, and Phillips to Oscar Elsas
Date: 1915 February 26
Document Type: Letter
Unique ID: ms004-101
Description: In this letter, the law firm of Roser, Brandon, Slaton, and Phillips offers legal advice to Oscar Elsas in dealing with the strikers at the 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 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.
[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.
"Strike Waged in Georgia Factory"
Date: 1914 August 15
Document Type: Article
Unique ID: ms004-116
Description: This article describes the Fulton Bag strike from the point of view of the labor leaders. Item is a photocopy.
"Woman Organizer Comes From Great Southern Strike"
Date: ca. 1914
Document Type: Article
Unique ID: ms004-169
Description: This article gives a brief biography of labor organizer Sara Conboy, and her activities in Atlanta during the strike. Item is a photocopy.
"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 #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 #145"
Date: 1919 September 06
Document Type: Report
Unique ID: ms004-234
Description: In this report, an operative describes a threat of a strike by teamsters.
"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.
[List of witnesses for the defendant and the complainant in the investigation of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills by the Commission on Industrial Relations]
Date: 1915 March 17-27
Document Type: Government Record
Unique ID: ms004-262
Description: This document lists the witnesses for the complainant and defendant in the Commission on Industrial Relations investigation of the Atlanta textile industry.