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Paterson Strike Pageant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Brooks McNamara ,
Jessie Ashley ,
F. Sumner Boyd ,
Mabel Dodge ,
William D. Haywood ,
John Reed  and
Margaret H. Sanger
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Extract

On June 7, 1913, the Industrial Workers of the World presented the Paterson Strike Pageant at Madison Square Garden. It was a powerful and innovative use of the pageant form: On a huge stage, more than 200 feet long and capable of holding more than 1,000 performers, workers from silk factories at Paterson, New Jersey, recreated the central events of their strike, which was led by the IWW. The strike had begun in February. By June, two workers had been killed by random gunfire from police and private detectives hired by the mill owners. Nearly 1,500 strikers and sympathizers had been arrested. Among those arrested was the young journalist John Reed, who was later to write Ten Days That Shook the World.

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The Drama Review , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Summer 1971 , pp. 60 - 71
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 The Drama Review

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Footnotes

Facing page. Cover of the Paterson Strike Pageant program. Design by Robert Edmond Jones. NYU: Tamiment Institute Library Overleaf. Scenerio from the pageant program. NYU: Tamiment Institute Library.