1870 North Adams strike

1870 strike in Massachusetts shoe factory May 2024 May 2024 North Adams strike File:North Adams strike breakers.jpg "Chase's Chinamen"— Chinese workers North Adams, Massachusetts 1870 42 42 7.44 N 73 6 49.97 W inline, title Eight-hour day Strikes, Protest, Demonstrations Chinese immigrants brought in from California, replacing union workers for more competitive wages Order of the Knights of St. Crispin Mill management Non-centralized leadership Calvin T. Sampson George W. Chase Arrests: 2 Arrests The North Adams strike (also called North Adams Scandal) was a strike which began in April 1870 by shoe workers who were members of the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Calvin T. Sampson's Shoe factory, in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. The strike itself was broken when the factory superintendent, George W. Chase, fired the Irish workers, replacing them with newly employed seventy-five Chinese men brought to Massachusetts from California.Brown Elspeth 2010-04-14 Elspeth H. Brown. Review of "A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town" by Anthony W. Lee. Caa.reviews 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.39 1543-950X free Bringing national attention to North Adams, the event started a nation-wide trend of bringing in scab labor and helped perpetuate the concept of immigrants coming to the United States to steal jobs, which led to much hostility towards Chinese immigrants across the nation.Eckman Brennan Sampson Shoe Factory https://historicnorthadams.com/items/show/108 2022-06-26 Historic North Adams en Legacy The incident sparked widespread working-class protest across the country, shaped legislative debate in Congress, and helped make Chinese immigration a sustained national issue.April 2022 Twelve years later, the United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring most Chinese immigrants from entering the country. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major anti-immigration law in American history.On This Day... 15 June 2005 http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=191 Mass Moments 18 November 2015A Study of the North Adams Labor Strike, 1870 http://inquiryunlimited.org/ss_industrial_revolution/chinese_north_adams.html Inquiry Unlimited 18 November 2015Gyory Andrew A Shoemaker's Story http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=213 Picturing U.S. History 18 November 2015 November 19, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151119150922/http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/item.php?item_id=213 dead References Sources A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town Anthony W. Lee Princeton University Press 2008 9780691133256 Category:Labor disputes in Massachusetts Category:1870 labor disputes and strikes Category:North Adams, Massachusetts Category:History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts Category:Asian-American culture in Massachusetts Category:1870 in Massachusetts Category:1870s strikes in the United States Category:April 1870 in the United States