On this day, 12 March 1912, employers caved in to all of the demands of the Bread and Roses strike by 20,000 mostly women garment workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The stoppage, after it was started by Polish women, was organised by the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union.
The workers faced down savage police and militarily repression, who killed one woman and beat and jailed many others, and eventually won big concessions across the whole garment industry.
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