2015.007.004

William Cahn, noted author, assembled a book on the Lawrence Strike of 1912 and was working on a revision of the book when he died. The revision has been completed by his friend Moe Foner & Paul Cowan. This is a story of the "proud history of textile unionism in America." In the decades following the strike hundreds of thousands of wool, cotton & silk workers throughout American rose up in revolt. When the workers showed they could not be beaten back by clubs and bullets to keep them from becoming unionized, the mill owners retaliated by moving their operations to the South where wages were low and the unions weak. This publication has many pictures of the strikers and the police with guns, young children who forego their education to work in the mills, the so-called "fat cats of industry" who have no regard for the laborers. The front & back cover of this book shows the paintings by Ralph Fasanella of various landmarks in Lawrence. Mr. Fasanella has done many drawings of buildings and communities in Lawrence. There are three copies of this book all with the same accession number

The front cover has a very slight rip and small bend of pages on the bottom right.