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The Trial of a New Society
Justus Ebert
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on
strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working conditions.
Representatives from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW/Wobblies) came in to
help organize the strike. The city declared martial law and a tense standoff went on
for weeks. National newspapers provided breathless coverage of the strike and
painted drastically different pictures of what was happening and who was to blame.
When a woman was shot in ambiguous circumstances, strike leaders were tried for
murder--not for shooting her, but for purportedly inciting mob violence leading to her
death. They were acquitted.
This book by an ardent IWW member, which seems to have been written in haste as
well as in great enthusiasm, gives a vivid journalistic account of labor conditions, of
the strike which was afterward known as the Bread and Roses strike, of the trial of
strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovanitti, and of the general strike organized
to support them.
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Total running time 03:30:43
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