Plymouth Cordage Company

In January 1916, the company was seeing increased business in their busiest season, preparing twine for both local harvest and foreign countries at war.

When wages stayed stagnant despite rising costs of living, Cordage workers, despite not being unionized, spontaneously walked out in the company's first strike, halting company-wide production.

After a month-long closure, the factory offered a modest increase in wages below the strike demand, to which the workers accepted and returned.

[5] In modern times, the 45-acre (180,000 m2) Cordage factory property in North Plymouth has been turned into a large retail and office center.

The building, now known as Cordage Commerce Center, houses the Plymouth MBTA station, a terminus for the Old Colony Line.