The woolen mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts were by all accounts horrific places.
Our favorite version is by the great Utah Phillips. The poem was set to music in 1974 by Mimi Farina and has since become a labor-folk standard. The Lawrence Strike has come to be known as the “Bread And Roses Strike,” because young women strikers were seen carrying banners that read, “We Want Bread, but Roses Too!,” quoting a line from James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” (though labor folklore has attributed the source of Oppenheim’s poem to the Lawrence strike, it was actually written a year earlier, to commemorate the struggles of Chicago women workers). history to be carried out primarily by and on behalf of immigrant women. This was the strike that put the IWW on the map, the strike that invented the moving picket line (to get around anti-loitering laws) and, most importantly, the first successful, large-scale strike in U.S. Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.January 11th marks the 101st anniversary of the beginning of the Lawrence Textile Strike, one of the signal events of 20th-century American labor history. It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers, causing it to scurry further up Kiki's colon, which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out of the cardboard tube like a cannonball.' Tomaszewski's hair and severely burning his face. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal methane gas in Kiki's colon. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he simply would not come out, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."Īt a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman desribed what happened next. "As usual, Kiki shouted out 'Armageddon,' my cue that he'd had reached nirvana, so to speak. "I pushed a cardboard toilet paper tube up his rectum and slipped Ragout, our gerbil, in," he explained. Tomaszewski and his homosexual partner, Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. But I was only trying to save the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told the bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.
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