Shoemakers Union, Local 357, is located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
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Boot and Shoemakers Union, Local 357 (Bridgewater, Ma.) Meeting and Record Books, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Books are in chronological order.
Records of the Boot and Shoemakers Union, Local 357, Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Included are lists of members, applications for membership, meeeting minutes, dues, fines, death benefits, information on strikes, etc.
Example of an entry: August 18, 1916: "Eva Valarde charged with strikebreaking at...was charged $25 initiation fee, to be suspended during good behavior."