Bread and Roses strike begins in Lawrence.

[1/11-BGL] Polish women workers at the American Woolen Company Mills shut down their looms, walk off their jobs and take to the streets. They are protesting pay cuts by their employer after a new state law reduced the maximum workweek from 56 to 54 hours. The strike is subsequently joined by some 15,000 women from other ethnic groups and organized by the Industrial Workers of the World Union (“Wobblies”). It ends when management agrees to a 15% pay increase, overtime pay, improved workplace conditions, and amnesty for the striking workers on March 14, 1912.