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happy? – Feb 5 ('Bread & Roses') DigiTrad: BREAD AND ROSES Related threads: (origins) Origins: Bread and roses (47) Bread & Roses (singing group) (6) happy? – Jan 11 ('Bread & Roses' strike) (3) Lyr Req/Add: They All Sang Bread and Roses (S Kahn (3) bread and roses (10)
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Subject: RE: happy? � Feb 5 ('Bread & Roses') From: Susanne (skw) Date: 07 Feb 06 - 06:43 PM Link doesn't work any more, but I'd already posted the article elsewhere: Jim Zwick, "Behind the Song: Bread and Roses." Sing Out! 46 (Winter 2003) |
Subject: RE: happy? � Feb 5 ('Bread & Roses') From: Susanne (skw) Date: 05 Feb 06 - 08:19 PM The song is usually associated with the Lawrence strike. However. through a Mudcat thread I learned that the song was actually published before the strike. See article by Jim Zwick. (I hope the link still works but if not I've copied the article.) |
Subject: happy? – Feb 5 ('Bread & Roses') From: Abby Sale Date: 05 Feb 06 - 11:00 AM 25,000 textile workers strike against the American Woolen Co. of Lawrence, MA, Jan 11, 1912 (qv.) To get food and housing for the affected children, the IWW sent trainloads of the children to other cities. On Feb 5, 1912, Lawrence police attacked and clubbed the embarking children and their parents in order to reduce public sympathy for the strikers. (!!!) The strike was won on March 12th.
FURTHER: This strike was one of the few great successes for the IWW. It was a singing strike - men & women. One song they sang was:
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