On This Day (March 12) In !912, The Bread & Roses

Strike in Lawrence, Ma. was settled with the workers winning nearly all of their demands. The striking workers were mostly immigrant women from more than 30 different nations and winning was only temporary. Soon many of the mill owners began looking to the non union south for increasing their profits; particularly Virginia and the Carolinas. 

Labor rates in the south and the beginnings of some unionizing activities had mill owners moving their operations overseas within a few decades. 


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