Lawrence Public Library

Strike poetry, [1912?-19--?]

eng

non fiction

Strike poetry

Broadsides, taped to lined spiral notebook paper., The first and second poems probably relating to the Lawrence, Mass., textile strike of 1912 and are titled: "No surrender unless we receive fair pay" and "The girls' reply to the shut down". The third broadside, a poem written by Thomas J. Burns, of Lawrence, an unemployed operative, who offered his poem for sale to subsidize his lack of income