The basic facts
Where did the strike take place?
in Lawrence, Massachusetts
What were the workers called?
Textile workers
How did the police and city officials try to stop the strikers from protesting?
- The police and city officials tried to stop the protests by using force
What did the mill owners do to try and break the strike after the workers first walked out?
- used a variety of tactics to break the strike.
Who Spoke up about worker lives and working conditions?
- Mother mary
What symbol meant " better quality of life "
" Roses " as in " bread and roses "
This women was a well known leader for the strike
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
What happened the peoples emotions where children were sent to live with other families to get them to safety?
- public sympathy
Why did the authorities falsely charge two of the IWW leaders with murder?
- They framed them because they wanted to remove them from the strike, hoping to weaken and end the protest.
How many factories were there in bad conditions for workers?
- Five hundred
What was one example of how the workers building conditions were not safe?
1 - Wet shoes/wet clothes
2 - Hot steam
3 - Cement floors as hot as coals
4 - Breathing air laden with particles of soda, and other chemicals
5 - broken stairways, dirty windows ect
6 - no drinking water
This young mill worker was hurt by a machine while she was doing labor
Carmela Teoli
What did the police do at a train station that turned public opinion against the mill owners?
- police and militia brutally attacked a group of women and children.
Why did the young shirt waist workers do to try and save their lives during the fire?
- Burned to death/The jumped but sadly all passed
in the newsela article "The Rise of Organized Labor in the United States" . How long did they work?
- worked 10-hour shifts, six days a week
What labor union stepped in and took over the strike?
( IWW ) - The industrial Workers of the world.
Who wrote the poem in 1911 about the " Bread and roses strike "
- James Oppenheim
What did happened to Anna LoPiozzo and who got blamed for it?
- likely shot by the police and authorities blamed Ettor and Giovannitti.
Due to accidents and sickness how many workers were killed don the job?
- 1904,27,000 killed /and 50 accidents
What ages of children and adults died due to work accidents?
died before age 6, and more than a third of adults who worked in the mills died before they were 25
What did the strikers achieve by the end of the Bread and Rose strike
A pay raise and a less restrictive attendance policy
Who was a (LWW ) Leader who joined Arturo Giovannitti to the Socialist Party of America
Joseph "Smiling Joe" Ettor
What did the strikers do to avoid being arrested by the police?
got sympathy/ got donations from the public to keep the strike going,
What did the people think after mother Mary and poet Edwin Markham made those statements?
- no responses as we know of
What powder made Sadie have multiple illnesses?
- White lead powder mixed rosin.