The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, began on this day in 1912 in Massachusetts. Workers, mostly immigrant women and children, won their demands after months of violence and national press campaigns.
The strike was led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and united immigrant workers of over forty nationalities. Prompted by a two-hour pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the workweek for women, the strike spread rapidly through the town, growing to more than twenty thousand workers and involving nearly every mill in Lawrence.
National attention to the strike greatly increased when two IWW leaders, "Smiling Joe" Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, were arrested on fabricated charges related to the murder of a striking worker. Upon their arrest, "Big Bill" Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn took over leadership of the strike. They further sensationalized the condition of the striking workers by ostentatiously sending their hungry children to stay with families and supporters in New York City.
Striking workers and families were brutalized by police. When authorities tried to prevent more children from leaving the city, the police attacked a crowd of parents and their children, causing one pregnant woman to miscarry. Growing national sympathy for the strikers finally led the mill owners to agree to worker demands, and the parties agreed on significant pay raises to return to work.
Ettor and Giovannitti were in prison for months after the strike ended, but were eventually acquitted of all charges.
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On this day in 1933, forces of the Second Spanish Republic massacred suspected anarchists in the town of Casas Viejas, trapping families in their homes and setting them on fire. 21-24 people were killed.
The massacre happened following revolutionary marches by the anarcho-syndicalist union Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). Earlier in January, two government guards were wounded in one of these demonstrations.
The Second Spanish Republic (not to be confused with the socialist governments during the Spanish Civil War), forcibly suppressed this working class movement. On January 11th, 1933, the "Civil Guard" and "Assault Guard" arrived in the village Casas Viejas. Many of the villagers fled, but some anarchists tried to resist arrest and barricaded themselves in the home of an anarchist, Francisco Cruz Gutiérrez, who was nicknamed Seisdedos.
When guards under the command of Captain Rojas arrived, they set the house on fire with the anarchists and their families still inside. One anarchist, Maria Silva Cruz, survived the fire and emerged with a child, a boy, still alive.
Soldiers and police then arrested anyone in the village who possessed a gun, marched them to the smoking ashes of the cottage and their dead colleagues, and shot them in the back. Between twenty-one and twenty-four people died during the incident.
The massacre led to widespread outrage among left-wing groups, some of which had previously participated in the Second Spanish Republic, significantly undermining support for and compliance with the government.
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