Matilda Getrude Robbins was a Russian Empire-born American socialist labor organizer who first connected with the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1912 Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Matilda Robbins
Likely taken after her arrest in Detroit, Michigan. Photograph back reads: "Rabinowitz on the way to the workhouse - Patrol Kindley (illeg.) by police department"
1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike
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 walkout of primarily immigrant mill workers at the Phoenix Knitting Mill following a reduction in pay, followed the next week by workers at the Gilbert Knitting Mill for the same reason. The strike, which grew to several hundred participants under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), lasted until January the following year, when the mills and the strikers came to an agreement that brought the workers back to the mills on January 6.
Little Falls, New York, in 1894
The Jackson bill came after the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire amidst efforts to improve workplace safety.
