The #BreadAndRoses #strike, aka #LawrenceStrike, began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1912, when women & girls in New England cotton mills saw a pay cut. 20,000 joined the #IWW action and held out until March, winning on all demands. This is why the state attacked #unions; they work.

The Bread & Roses strikers, many of them children, faced violence and persecution but persisted. Their months of organizing led to a historic victory that changed history.

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