Image: Diary of Michael Shiner page 60 the white carpenters made the black caulkers quick work

Description: Commodore Hull ishsared[issued] and evry one of them struck and said they wouldnt work anny moore and at the same time they wher collered man from Baltirmoore by the name of isral Jones a caulker by Trade he was the foman Caulker of those Colerded Caulkers and they wher fifteen or twenty of them here at that time Caulkin on the Col lumbia and the Carpinters made all of them knock oft two them and i the height of this excitement they were a Rumor flying around about a colered man by the name of Snow about a expression he had made about the Mechanics wifes god kowes wether he said those things or not and at that time snow kept a Restaurant on the Corner of six street and pennsilvanian west in the cellar and at the time all the Mechanics of classes gathered into snows Restaurant and broke him up Root and Branch and they were after snow but he flew for his life and that night after they had broke snow up they threatened to come to the navy yard after commodore Hull
Title: Diary of Michael Shiner page 60 the white carpenters made the black caulkers quick work
Credit: Diary of Michael Shiner page 60 relating events in the 1835 strike at the Washington Navy Yard
Author: Michael Shiner (1805 -1880 ) Diary, page 60 dated 1835, Collection of the Library of Congress
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License: Public domain
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