This document is featured in the exhibit "From Roses to Raises," section: "Mill Girls 'Turn Out' in Lowell (1834-1836)"
“Petition by Suffolk Weavers Against Wage Reduction (1834)" Appleton Company Papers, Collection Number 6516, Series VI. Labor, Box 3, Folder 94. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library. https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL06516.html#link229
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[Feb 1834]
We the undersigned considering ourselves wronged and our
privileges invades(?) by the unjust and unreasonable oblidgement (sic)
of our wages do hereby mutually and cheerfully engage
not to enter the Factory on the first of March, nor
after for the purpose of work unless the paper which
causes our dissatisfactions be removed and another
signed by the Agent of the Appleton (inserted above: mang) Company purportg (sic)
that our wages shall be after the same rate as previous
to the first of March.
Any person who shall sign this paper and afterward
retracts shall be holden to pay the sum of five
dollars which sum shall be paid over to any
individuals whom the majority shall appoint to
receive the same to be appropriate for the
benifit (sic) of some benevolent object in this Town.
Whereas we the Suffolk weavers do mutually
agree and pledge ourselves to give two weeks
notice on Friday next the 14 day of February
and we do corduially (sic) solicit the weavers of the
Appleton to join us in the Same
Left Column
Harriet N. Edwards
Eliza W Evan
Polly Robinson
Judith Robinson
Nancy Colby
Mary Dean
Martha Kimball
Drusilla Smith
Govina Graves
Abigail B Worther
Gasna(?) Ward
Mary Harrington
Angelina Evans
Right Column
Augusta White
Polly Robinson
Minerva Newman
Violet G Cummings
Elizabeth C James
Rachel Cheevers
Mary Sargent
Asenathi(?) Peasby
Eliza Stanwood
Fanny Wheelock
Lydia Morse
Mary Cummings
Nancy Thorn
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Left Column
Merey Ellis
Sarah England
Julia A England
Deborah D Soper
Esther Lang
Sarah Worther
Fanny Tarbell
Mary A Remmington
Doras Tarbell
Roxana Tucker
Betsey Robinson
Sarah Collins
Fanny Stone
Right Column
Sophronia Thompson
Harriet Thompson
Sabra King
Sarah Gilsor
Julia A Young
Ines Hayden
Judith Collins
Charity Mellers
Eunice P Walsworth
Sarah Govdale
Mary Fay
Mary Thomas
Sray Baker
(Noted sideways on the bottom of the page)
1834
Copy of Paper relating to “Strike”