2019.072.102

This is a book cataloguing the series of labor strikes that occurred in Lawrence around 1912 regarding the low wages and long hours provided to the mill workers in the city. On the morning of January 12th, 1912, one of the largest labor strikes in American history would take place due to a drastic decrease in wages and increasingly poor work conditions. This would be the start of months of protests, mill closings, violence and inhumane treatment of Lawrence strikers by police officials and federal troopers, many of these officials hired by the same mills the strikers once worked for to quash the protests. This event would reverberate throughout the nation to signal a new age of labor laws and regulations. Eventually, through the help of outspoken politicians, industry heads and fellow laborers from all over the country, wages would be increased at the Lawrence mills, hours would be cut, and work conditions would slowly begin to improve. This was the first big success for fair and honest American labor, and these strikes set a precedent for all other American labor movements to come. These events are all archived within this book through detailed pictures and descriptions of the events as they transpired in 1912.