Labor Protest Documents of the 1820s and 1830s

 

PREAMBLE OF THE MECHANICS' UNION OF TRADE ASSOCIATIONS
(Philadelphia, 1828)

THE REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY
(New York, 1829)

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL TRADES' UNION CONVENTION OF 1834
(New York, 1834)

TEN-HOUR CIRCULAR (Boston, 1835)

"WHAT IS THE TRADES' UNION?"
(Pennsylvanian, Feb. 9, 1836)

THE NEW YORK TAILORS' STRIKE OF I836