Madanick, H. (District Council #3, Baltimore) 1915-20

Detailed documentation of the Sonneborn and Co. strike and related events (strikes at other companies, employee discharges, worker arrests and Baltimore press coverage of the strikes); many comments about women workers in relation to hiring, discriminatory discharges, strike fund allowance, union dues, etc.; investigative report from The Committee of Inquiry relating to sanitary conditions, 46 hour workweek and pay increase at Samuelson and Kaplan; the need for Italian, Polish and Bohemian organizers; struggle with the IWW; account of Hillman's and Schlossberg's tour of Canada; organizing Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton.