Lawrence Strike - Labor history Punk Back Patch

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Ok, so the Lawrence textile strike is almost as important to me as the Ludlow strike, and it should be to you too.

The Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 was a long and bitter battle, led primarily by female immigrant laborers, for the rights of a human to have more than just the bread on their plate. It was a massive strike, involving more than twenty thousand workers and lasting more than two months of bitter cold. “ … defying the assumptions of conservative trade unions within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) that immigrant, largely female and ethnically divided workers could not be organized. “ (per Wikipedia)

Here are the words of Utah Phillips, describing the strike:

“…Wages hours and conditions, that’s important. But it takes more than those three things to be a woman, it takes more than those three things to lead any kind of decent human life. The next day, parading down the street, on two years of parades, a newspaper reporter noticed that there was a young woman carrying a large sign that said ‘Bread, yes. But roses too.’ and Lawrence became the Bread and Roses strike.” - Utah Phillips on the strike

Image is roughly 8x9" with extra fabric to hem to size.
Ok, so the Lawrence textile strike is almost as important to me as the Ludlow strike, and it should be to you too.

The Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 was a long and bitter battle, led primarily by female immigrant laborers, for the rights of a human to have more than just the bread on their plate. It was a massive strike, involving more than twenty thousand workers and lasting more than two months of bitter cold. “ … defying the assumptions of conservative trade unions within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) that immigrant, largely female and ethnically divided workers could not be organized. “ (per Wikipedia)

Here are the words of Utah Phillips, describing the strike:

“…Wages hours and conditions, that’s important. But it takes more than those three things to be a woman, it takes more than those three things to lead any kind of decent human life. The next day, parading down the street, on two years of parades, a newspaper reporter noticed that there was a young woman carrying a large sign that said ‘Bread, yes. But roses too.’ and Lawrence became the Bread and Roses strike.” - Utah Phillips on the strike

Image is roughly 8x9" with extra fabric to hem to size.