House 1719 William Trent is located in downtown trenton, it is the oldest Historic House in new jersey. William trent was a scottish born merchant aced out of philadelphia. Based out of philadelphia. His business made him very wealthy and he purchased his second summer home right here where we are standing. His margin business dealt with merchant business dealt with importing and next boarding things like rum, molasses and wine. He was also involved in the slave trade. Products he exported and imported were made by slaves in the wes indies and west africa. They were brought to the shipping area where they could no longer pass along the delaware river, they went he broughts area goods to philadelphia and anywhere else that needed them. When mr. Trent came here, he became the major landowner and employer. He employed a lot of local people. Thus, making him the major employer. At one point, he incorporated the town. The locals started calling it trent town. From there, we get trenton. He
Hes currently writing a study of the textile strike of 1926. Is considered a period pioneered many of the labor protests that were to become born in the 1930s. The coworker strike was using the union to provide social and Relief Services to striking workers. This describes the tremendously violent means police used. We ask that you please join us for a light reception after the event. Lets welcome professor jacob zumoff prof. Zumoff thank you very much. I am very happy to be here, especially since quite a bit of my research is based on material here, including the town of pelham, new jersey. What i kind of want to do is talk a little about the strike talkf, and then i want to look at the question of why a strike is important and why it is worth looking at. As has been said in the inch of introduction, a lot of scholarly perception of the 1920s, the roaring 1920s, looks at it as a period of antilabor with tremendous attacks on the working class and the Labor Movement. And a relatively c
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