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Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike (Images of America)

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Incorporated in 1847 at the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was once the final and most ambitious of New England’s planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate power, by 1912 Lawrence led the world within the production of worsted wool cloth. The Pacific Cotton Mills by myself had sales of nearly $10 million and had mechanical equipment able to producing 800 miles of finished textile fabrics each and every working day. Then again, industrial growth was once accompanied by worsening health, housing, and working conditions for among the city’s workers. These were the root causes that led to the long, every now and then violent struggle between people of diverse ethnic groups and languages and the city’s mill owners and overseers. The 1912 strike―known as of late as the Bread and Roses Strike―became a landmark moment in history.

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