Spoiled silk : the Red mayor and the great Paterson textile strike / George William Shea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shea, George W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brueckmann, William.

Brueckmann, Katherine.

Socialists--United States--Biography.

Socialists.

Mayors.

United States.

New Jersey--Haledon.

Mayors--New Jersey--Haledon--Biography.

Silk Workers' Strike, Paterson, N.J., 1913.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife, Katherine, who started a new life in the American industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their fellow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence surrounding them. Their efforts contributed to the long-lived struggle to improve working conditions in American mills, but their dream of a socialist America was never to be realized.

Contents:

1. Like Just Yesterday 1

2. The Cedar Cliff Hotel 20

3. The Business and the Party 28

4. Stubborn Dutchman 36

5. Strike in the Paterson Mills 49

6. The Haledon Meetings Begin 56

7. Desperation Takes Hold 68

8. The IWW on Trial 72

9. A Question of How You See It 79

10. The Strike Ends 89

11. Family Matters, Party Matters 101

12. The War 114

13. Good Times 120

14. Loss 128

15. A Visit to Morrissee Avenue 134

16. Bad Times 141

17. Just Not in Him 152

18. I Had a Son 160

19. New Family 167

20. Sunday Walks, Sunday Mass 175

21. Retired Now 184

22. Things Run Down 194

23. The Last Walk 198.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0823221334

0823221342

OCLC:

47074603