TY - SER
KW - labor strikes
KW - governors
KW - union organizers
KW - assassinations
KW - trade unions
KW - journalists
KW - police
AU - Guy Wetmore Carryl
AB - An anti-labor fable set in Alleghenia, a factitious state resembling Western Pennsylvania. Governor Elijah Abbot, elected by a labor-reform coalition, actively supports a mill strike, but mill owner Peter Rathbawne refuses to make concessions. When Abbot is shot, Lieutenant-Governor John Barclay heroically declares martial law and breaks the strike.
C1 - 1900s
C3 - Alleghenia (Western Pennsylvania)
C4 - Labor; Comedy
CY - Boston
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - An anti-labor fable set in Alleghenia, a factitious state resembling Western Pennsylvania. Governor Elijah Abbot, elected by a labor-reform coalition, actively supports a mill strike, but mill owner Peter Rathbawne refuses to make concessions. When Abbot is shot, Lieutenant-Governor John Barclay heroically declares martial law and breaks the strike.
PB - Houghton, Mifflin and Company
PP - Boston
PY - 1903
RN - Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904) was born in New York and graduated in 1895 from Columbia. He was a writer for popular magazines and is best known as a humorist and poet of light verse. After fighting a fire in his home, he died at age 31 in New York.
EP - 269 p.
TI - The Lieutenant-Governor
ER -