![]() ![]() The success of the so-called "children's crusade" in bringing awareness and sympathy to the Lawrence strikers led the authorities to send militia to intervene with the next attempt to send children to New York. Around 200 children were sent away on trains, with some 5,000 people showing up at the station to receive them in a demonstration of solidarity and to assist with finding them foster homes. Violence around town led many children of immigrants to be sent to New York, as Tateh attempted to do with Little Girl. After this arrest, martial law was declared and all public meetings were declared illegal. Police instead arrested strike organizers Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti for the murder of LoPizzo who were at a meeting three miles away at the time of her death. On January 29, Anna LoPizzo was shot, allegedly by police as they broke up a picket line. to set their demands-15% pay increase, 54 hour work week, double pay for overtime, elimination of bonus pay. Many strikers met the next day with an organizer from the I.W.W. The city of Lawrence rang its riot bells in panic. Nationalities represented in the Lawrence Textile Strike include Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese, French-Canadian, Slavic, and Syrian. On January 12, 10,000 workers walked off the job, with the number soon rising to 25,000, many of whom were immigrants. ![]() ![]() Despite not belonging to any union, a few Polish women went on strike on January 11 when they noticed the shorted paychecks. Instead of shortening the work week as instructed, the mill owners of the American Woolen Company shorted the paychecks of their women mill workers. In early 1912, a state law was introduced limiting the number of hours women could work to 54 hours per week. ![]()
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