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April 1, 1913
http://nhlabornews.com/2014/04/april-1-1913/
More than 1,000 workers in Hopedale, Massachusetts, employed at the Draper Corporation – which produced automated cotton textile looms – go out on strike over wages and working conditions. Striking workers staged protest marches, rallies, and mass meeting, and were met with concerted and relentless legal action, police violence, and scabs.
Source: Today In Labor History (Union Review)
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About Today In Labor History
The NHLN has joined with multiple other websites to help highlight some of the struggles that workers have faced throughout our history. We want everyone to know what the workers of the past had to endure for the rights we take for granted now. If you do not learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it.