One of the most significant struggles for workers’ rights began on Jan. 11, 1912, in Lawrence, Massachusetts when thousands of textile workers began a walkout that would come to be known as the Bread and Roses Strike. It was also called the Lawrence Textile Strike and the Singing Strike.
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The Fight for Freedom
There is no fundamental difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. Their principles are identical. They are both capitalist parties and both stand for the capitalist system, and such differences as there are between them involve no principle but are the outgrowth of the conflicting interests of large and small capitalists.
Eugene V. Debs