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Spoiled Silk - The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Spoiled Silk - The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland,
William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life
in America's first industrial city, Paterson NJ, nourishing a
vision of their adopted country that was never to be. Committed to
a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their
follow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the
midst of the turbulence that surrounded them. Their efforts
contributed in the long run to improved working conditions in
American mills, but their dream of a socialist America was never to
be realized. It was in 1913 that the workers in the Paterson
textile mills, having learned that a new kind of loom would put
many of them out of work went on strike against the mill owners. In
desperation, they called in Big Bill Haywood and the Wobblies of
the I.W.W. to help them. The Paterson authorities moved quickly to
crush the strike by forbidding the strikers to hold public
meetings. Alone among elected local officials, William Brueckmann,
Mayor of the neighboring town of Haledon, defied the Paterson
authorities and their police department and upheld the
constitutional rights of the strikers by giving them a safe haven
in his town. His action marked the beginning of a long and bitter
struggle that brought thousands of workers to the open fields of
Haledon and forced the city of Paterson to its knees.The strike is
an important chapter in the history of the American labor movement.
For William and Katherine Brueckmann it did not however, mark the
end of their struggles. Spoiled Silk also chronicles the prejudice
they had to face during the First World War and the pressures that
eventually drove them to compromise with post-war America and its
Good Times. It was a compromise that would bring with it a
different kind of tragedy and sorrow, the death of an only son and
their own drawing apart from one another. The recent interest in
immigrants to America has almost overlooked the largest group of
immigrants, the German Americans. Spoiled Silk is a moving story
about two of them. Vividly told, Spoiled Silk brings to life the
experiences of these valiant people in the early decades of the
century just past.
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