Bread & Roses 100th Anniversary

Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
Bruce Watson On January 12, 1912, 30,000 workers stormed out of the massive textile mills lining the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The reason - a weekly pay cut of 32 cents. The press expected the strike to fizzle, but in a powderkeg city of tenements and mansions, it became a pitched battle between the mill owners