On this day, January 11 , in 1912
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The "Bread and Roses" strike began at a textile factory in Lawrence, Massachusetts. At the factory, which relied heavily on the cheap labor of immigrants, women, and children, anywhere between 25 and 30 thousand workers walked out to protest exploitative factory policies, physical abuse, sexual harassment, poor working conditions, and inhumane wages. The National Guard was immediately called in to quell the strike and began to violently assault the strikers, almost all of who were women and children. Members of the Industrial Workers of the World quickly collaborated with the strikers to become more organized, yet most major media outlets still refused to report on the strike. Now that's subjective journalism!
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