Correspondence and clippings pertain to Lamont's efforts in 1930 to raise money among Harvard University alumni to pay back wages to the scrubwomen in the University library whom President Lowell fired rather than pay them the minimum wage. The Consumers' League of Massachusetts, which too...

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Main Author: Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995
Format: Kit
Language:English
Subjects:
Anderson, Mary, > 1872-1964
Jackson, Gardner, > 1896-1965
Lamont, Corliss, > 1902-1995
Lowell, A. Lawrence > (Abbott Lawrence), > 1856-1943
Thompson, Mary Gordon, > 1885-1973
Wiesman, Margaret, > 1898-1953
Consumers' League of Massachusetts
Harvard University > Alumni and alumnae
Harvard University > Employees
Minimum wage
Strikes and lockouts > Building cleaning industry
Women cleaning personnel > Massachusetts
Working class women
Working class > Massachusetts
Philanthropists
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Harvard University

Holdings details from Harvard University
Call Number: MC 339

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