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Information about labor in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

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1911-07-21, Richmond Times-Dispatch; playground on the Van Lew property to be dismantled; laborers at Chimborazo Park getting paid for hours they didn’t work
1915-08-20, Greensboro (NC) Daily News; machinists at Tredegar Iron Works vote to strike for better wages
1915-09-04, Richmond Times-Dispatch; threatened strike at Tredegar Iron Works has been averted
1916-09-08, Richmond Times-Dispatch; want at for colored laborers at the Tredegar Iron Works
1917-04-02, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar closes shell foundry, having completed an order from the British government – 1,500 people laid off, pending new wartime contracts from US government
1917-04-10, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Tredegar Iron Works to reopen after being shut down temporarily. Notes that no foreign orders are being given in this country and that Tredegar is a union shop with a new fixed waged scale and an 8-hour day
1917-04-24, Richmond Times-Dispatch; want ad for colored laborers at the Tredegar Iron Works
1917-04-28, Richmond Times-Dispatch; want ad for 6 green sand moulders at the Tredegar Iron Works
1917-05-11, Richmond Times-Dispatch; want ad for laborers at Tredegar
1918-11-17, Richmond Times-Dispatch; want ad for “25 colored laborers” at Tredegar

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