“Short pay! All out!” The Great Lawrence Strike of 1912 is now open on the 6th floor of the Everett Mill, 15 Union Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Exhibit Hours:
Thursday through Saturday
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
and by appointment by calling the Lawrence History Center at 978-686-9230.
The exhibit is free and open to the public and is fully accessible at the rear entrance to the Everett Mill.
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“Susan, there are over 200 students downstairs waiting to get into the freight elevator,“ whispered LHC Board President, Pamela Yameen, to LHC Executive Director, Susan Grabski on the snowy morning of Thursday, January, 12, 2012. And so began the opening of the bilingual exhibit, “Short pay! All out!" The Great Lawrence Strike of 1912, Bread & Roses Centennial.
100 years to the day after the Great Lawrence Strike of 1912 began, in the place where the strike began, the Lawrence History Center welcomed roughly nearly 500 guests into its 3,000 square foot exhibit space for the exhibit opening and to launch the year long, city wide calendar of events to commemorate the Centennial of the Bread & Roses Strike of 1912.
On behalf of the LHC Board of Directors, Staff, and Volunteers, LHC Director, Susan Grabski, welcomed guests and thanked supporters of and contributors to the development of "Short pay! All Out!"
Grabski then introduced a speaking program that included Marianne Paley Nadel (Everett Mills), Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (Massachusetts’ Fifth Congressional District), State Senator Barry Finegold (Massachusetts’ Second Essex and Middlesex District), Steven Tolman (President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO), Jacqueline Cooke (Regional Administrator, Women's Bureau , U.S. Department of Labor), Rocío Sáenz (President, SEIU Local 615), and Professor Robert Forrant (Chair, Bread & Roses Centennial Committee).
To view excerpts of the speeches, skillfully filmed by Lorre Fritchy of MasterPeace Productions, please visit the Lawrence History Center's YouTube page at http://www.youtube.com/user/lawrencehistory
The Lawrence History Center~Immigrant City Archives, founded 30 years ago by Eartha Dengler, occupies the historic compound of the Essex Company, and maintains and makes accessible all the records of this company that planned and built the City of Lawrence. The Center is also the repository of all records, pictures and artifacts of the rich and far broader history of Lawrence, so aptly called the Immigrant City.
The historic Turn Verein Hall 
