Write a six- or seven-page paper (1700 words) on the topic below. Refer to “Miller’s Memo” to make sure your paper meets all the requirements and that it is organized and free from grammatical errors. Substantiate your generalizations with facts from the assigned readings, and provide either footnotes or endnotes for your sources. A hard copy of the paper is due, in class, on 17 February 2022.
Supplemental Readings for the First Paper (in addition to the Shi along with the Shi and Mayer volumes)
More Than 140 Die as Flames Sweep through Three Stories of Factory Building in Washington Place, New York Tribune, 26 March 1911, 1-2, Library of Congress, Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1911-03-26/ed-1/seq-1/#words=
STORIES+THROUGH+SWEEP+FLAMES+THREE. (I suggest downloading the document as a PDF and then magnifying it.)
When Miners Strike: West Virginia Coal Mining and Labor History, US Congress, Senate, Committee on Education and Labor, Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia, March 9, 1914, 3-27, Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/
when-miners-strike-west-virginia-coal-mining-and-labor-history/sources/983. (Selecting View in Hathi Trust will enable one to download the entire document, but only pp. 3-27 are required,)
The Workers Side, Pittsburg Dispatch, 10 July 1892, 1-2, Library of Congress, Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1892-07-10/ed-1/seq-1/#words=
Homestead+Strike+Steel+Workers+Workmen+Almalgated+Association+Frick+Carnegie+Pinkertons+Pinkerton. (I suggest downloading the document as a PDF and then magnifying it.)
Paper Question
In the second half of the nineteenth century until 1914, based on the demands of workers and other documents presented in ch. 17 of Shi and Mayer as well as in The Workers Side, Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia, More Than 140 Die as Flames Sweep through Three Stories of Factory Building in Washington Place, and any other primary (documentary) sources from the assigned texts, what sorts of grievances prompted workers to strike?
Sample Footnotes or Endnotes (note the proper use of full and abbreviated citations)
1. US Senate, Testimony of Samuel Gompers, August 1883, Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations between Labor and Capital (Washington, DC, 1885), 1:165-170, in David Emory Shi and Holly A. Mayer, For the Record: A Documentary History of America, vol. 2: From Reconstruction through Contemporary Times, 7th ed. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2019), 30.
2. David Emory Shi, America: A Narrative History, vol. 2, 11th ed. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2019), 826.
3. Shi, America, 822-823.
4. Testimony of Samuel Gompers, 29-30.
5. Library of Congress, Chronicling America, The Workers Side, Pittsburg Dispatch, 10 July 1892, 1-2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1892-07-10/ed-1/seq-1/#words=
Homestead+Strike+Steel+Workers+Workmen+Almalgated+Association+Frick+Carnegie+Pinkertons+Pinkerton.
6. Digital Public Library of America,When Miners Strike: West Virginia Coal Mining and Labor History, US Congress, Senate, Committee on Education and Labor, Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia, March 9, 1914, 13-14, https://dp.la/primary-source-
sets/when-miners-strike-west-virginia-coal-mining-and-labor-history/sources/983.
7. The Workers Side, 2.
8. Committee on Education and Labor, Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields, 9.
9. Library of Congress, Chronicling America, More Than 140 Die as Flames Sweep through Three Stories of Factory Building in Washington Place, New York Tribune, 26 March 1911, 1-2, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1911-03-26/ed-1/seq-1/#words=
STORIES+THROUGH+SWEEP+FLAMES+THREE.
10. Terence V. Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor (Columbus,OH: Excelsior Publishing House, 1890), 243-246, in Shi and Mayer, For the Record, vol. 2: From Reconstruction through Contemporary Times, 25-26.
11. More Than 140 Die, 2.
