We Walk In Eternity: Lawrence, Massachusetts - A Foretaste

Few strikes in American labor history had to combat as many and as varied forces designed to defeat the struggle of the workers as were arrayed against the Lawrence strikers. As Haywood put it in a speech at a mass meeting of the strikers on February 9: "We are opposed by the courts, police, detectives that now spy among you, pulpit, press, soldiers, and legislature -- all are arrayed against us!"...

Although the Lawrence strike did not bring the revolution close to America...it did enhance the reputation of the IWW as the spokesman for America's impoverished, unorganized workers.

(From: Foner, Philip S., HISTORY OF THE LABOR MOMVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES VOLUME IV, International Publishers, New York, 1965)

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[MEpianist]

@haze17005 They were largely white, but you have to understand that in 1912, in Lawrence, the people there were discriminated against like non-whites are today. The Polish, Irish, and many other groups. I think you should read about the 1912 Strike and maybe learn something from us whites.

[haze17005]

it shows mad white people it should show the real side

[smiley12342]

IT all about lawrence MA i use 2 live rite by dat park ^.^

[dabeazt]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!