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The "children's exodus" proved to be a publicity coup for In an article written by the strikers, and Lawrence Christopher Klein on September authorities intended to halt it. When families brought another 46 3, 2012 we discover one of the children bound for Philadelphia to the city's train station on February pivotal moments in the labor 24, the city marshal ordered them to disperse. When defiant mothers movement when striking Their numbers swelled the following still tried to get their children American factory workers made week. Thousands of strikers, chanted aboard the train the police dragged a stand to not permit pay cuts, and sang protest songs as they them by the hair, beat them with child labor and dangerous paraded through the streets. clubs, and arrested them as their working conditions to continue. horrified children looked on in Women didn't shy away from the tears. According to Mr. Klein's article protests. They delivered rally the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike speeches and marched in picket lines shook America. In January and parades. The banners they 1912, 30,000 textile workers in carried demanding both living wages Lawrence, Massachusetts, and dignity -"We want bread, and walked off their jobs for nine roses, too"- gave the work stoppage weeks during the bitter winter. its name, the Bread and Roses Strike. When the mill fell silent on The social networks of the day-soup January 11, 1912 a mill officer kitchens, ethnic organizations, demanded to know why community halls, stitched the workers were standing patchwork of strikers together. Once motionless next to their the news of the walkout went viral in machines, the explanation was newspapers around the country. simple: "Not enough pay." American laborers took up collections In the afternoon the weavers for the strikers and local farmers The national reaction was visceral discovered their weekly wages arrived with food donations. and marked a turning point. had been reduced by 32 cents. A newly enacted Massachusetts Mill owners and city leaders hired After the children⬠"!s testimony, law had reduced the work week men to foment trouble and even public tide turned in favor of the of women and children from 56 planted dynamite in an attempt to strikers for good. The mill owners to 54 hours, but mill owners, discredit strikers. were ready for a deal and agreed to many of the workers⬠"! demands. unlike in the past, cut worker's With the city on a hair trigger, wages proportionally. Workers striking families sent 119 of their The two sides agreed to a 15 who only averaged about $8.76 children out of harm's way to percent wage hike, a bump in per week could not afford the Manhattan on February 10 to live overtime compensation and a 32 cent cut. In those days 32 with relatives or, in some cases, promise not to retaliate against cents meant the difference complete strangers who could strikers. On March 14, the nine- week strike ended. The Bread and between eating a meal or going provide food and a safe shelter. A Roses Strike was not just a victory cheering crowd of 5,000 greeted the for Lawrence workers. By the end hungry. of March, 275,000 New England children at Grand Central Terminal, textile workers received By the end of the day of and after a second trainload arrived January 12, more than 10,000 from Lawrence the following week, workers were out on strike.</code></pre> </div> </div> <div id="content-bottom"> <div id="content-bottom2"> <table width="110" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="22%" height="44"><a href=""><img src="images/previous.png" width="26" height="19" id="Image2" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image2','','images/previous2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" /></a></td> <td width="43%"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="page1.html">1</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="page2.html">2</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="page3.html">3</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="page4.html">4</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="page5.html">5</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="page6.html">6</a> </td> <td width="35%"><a href="page2.html"><img src="images/next.png" width="26" height="19" id="Image1" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','images/next2.png',1)" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" /></a></td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="right-button"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="page2.html"><img src="images/next_big.png" width="90" height="80" /></a></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>