shawl-weavers

Updated: May 18, 2025

The shawl-weavers formed another assembly, the carpet-weavers another, and so on, until over twenty assemblies, covering almost every trade, had been organized in Philadelphia alone. By 1875 there were eighty assemblies in the city and its vicinity.

Samuel Peter Orth - The Armies of Labor : A chronicle of the organized wage-earners