TabsRecord DataPlace Unit Type: City or TownContaining Unit: Essex County, MA Events Life span Type 02/27/1860 Seven hundred striking shoemakers march from Lynn to Marblehead Business/Industry 02/22/1860 Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts Business/Industry 03/08/1860 Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts Business/Industry Major Topics People Birth Place of Alley, John Bassett Burial Place of Alley, John Bassett Places Documents Subject Date Title 03/04/1860 New York Herald, “Northern White Slaves and Southern Black Ones,” March 4, 1860 03/17/1860 New York Times, "The Massachusetts Strike," March 17, 1860 03/27/1860 Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Failure Of A Strike,” March 27, 1860 Bibliography