Speaker 1: On this stone working class history the eleventh of January.
Speaker 1: And on the eleventh of January nineteen twelve, the Lawrence Strike,
Speaker 1: also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, broke out.
Speaker 1: Polish women working in cotton mills in New England noticed
Speaker 1: that their pay had been reduced and stopped their looms,
Speaker 1: leaving the mill shouting short pay. Other workers, mostly women
Speaker 1: and girls, also walked out, and within a week twenty
Speaker 1: thousand workers were out. Despite brutal repression, they held out
Speaker 1: until mid March and won all of their demands, which
Speaker 1: were also mirrored by other employers who wanted to avoid
Speaker 1: similar strikes. The popular name for the strike came from
Speaker 1: a line from a speech by socialist Rose Schneidermann quote
Speaker 1: the worker must have bread, but she must have roses
Speaker 1: to end quote, a demand which young girls inscribed on
Speaker 1: their banners in Lawrence. The Bread and Roses Strike is
Speaker 1: commemorated in our January t shirt of the Month, made
Speaker 1: by a workers cooperative and supporting grassroots unions in South Asia,
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