100th ANNIVERSARY - Angelo Rocco: The Lawrence Labor Strike of 1912

January 2012 is the 100th Anniversary of the birth of labor unions in America. Trailer to a 62 minute, unedited video interview with the International Workers of the World, I.W.W., union organizer, Angelo Rocco, conducted in 1977 when he was 93 years old.

In this historic interview Mr. Rocco, an Italian immigrant recalls the conditions leading up to the Lawrence, Massachusetts cotton mill strike of 1912 which received international attention and support. Mr. Rocco eloquently explains the tactics of the owners in trying to break the strike and how it is that the united workers won their demands.

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Join us for the Bread & Roses Centennial 2012, nine months of exhibits, performances, lectures, a symposium and other events, beginning, January 12, 2012-Labor Day Bread & Roses Festival, 2012, Lawrence, MA. Go to breadandrosescentennial for calendar

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This guy is a hero, politics aside. What a man.