strikers

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lawrence, MA, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

I used this image to illustrate a brief article I wrote about Big Bill Haywood, the IWW, and the Bread and Roses strike, pictured here. susanbarsy.com/2012/10/06/big-bill-haywood/

Great to see the pictures used! Find many more on the Library of Congress website!

this is on main street new york mills, ny

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called American Polonia History and Culture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

cheers to all the strikers !

The company owned the worker housing, so when the workers struck in 1912 and/or 1916, the company simply evicted them. Old company rent records show page after page, "Evicted." Strikers sold real-photo postcards to raise money and gain sympathy. See the book, "United We Stand" by James Pula and the late Eugene Dziedzic for the whole story. New York Mills is a separate incorporated village, immediately west of Utica.

Thanks so much for this information smithtelfer. Seems that Pula and Dziedzic wrote another book called "New York Mills" about the Polish workers and their efforts to unionize. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

This is the March - April, 1912 Lowell strike -- same strike as the photo of Big Bill Haywood with young strikers. The dispute began in the Merrimack's Number 1 weave room on March 25 and then spread to Lowell's other cotton mills as a strike and lockout. The workers might be picketing but they also might be showing up for their pay .