The 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike was a labor strike involving workers at two textile mills in Little Falls, New York, United States. The strike began on October 9, 1912, as a spontaneous walk
Little Falls, New York, in 1894
The Jackson bill came after the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire amidst efforts to improve workplace safety.
IWW organizer Benjamin Legere was found guilty of assault during the strike and sentenced to one year at Auburn Prison.
The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by a t
1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike
…immigrants in the area. The Little Falls strike was one in a wave of textile strikes in the Northeastern United States that followed the IWW's successful 1912 Lawrence textile strike, and one of numerous IWW-led strikes throughout the Northeast and the Midwest during the 1910s. Little Falls is a city in Herkimer County, in the Mohawk…
Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of strikers
Postcard of American Woolen Co., Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass.
The Massachusetts National Guard mounted on horses during the strike.
Political cartoon The Lawrence Way by Art Young with the caption: "On February 24 and 25, soldiers and policemen forcibly prevented parents from sending their children away from Lawrence to cities which offered food and shelter."