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100 Years Ago Today: Bread and Roses

100 years ago today:

Polish women weavers at Everett Cotton Mills in Lawrence realized that their employer had reduced their pay by 32¢; they stopped their looms and left the mill, shouting "short pay, short pay!" Workers at other mills joined the next day; within a week more than 20,000 workers were on strike.


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