Being from Greater Lawrence (Methuen) I found this article in the Pilot very interesting. It is about the textile workers striking in Lawrence. I also was a history major and when the subject of these strikers came up, my mother didn't recall anything. And she worked in a paper mill. My father worked in the textile mills. But I couldn't converse with him, he was always drunk, which is why he was out of work more often than not. I didn't think of asking Auntie, (my mother's aunt, my great aunt), who definitely would have remembered, but alas, I never learned Lithuanian. So I found the article very interesting.
Note how mobs turned violent and the name-calling sounds like what some call the people who stormed the Capitol building. Note also how the church aligned itself with the owners who donated money to build a school. That reminds me of Central and South America where the church is accused of aligning with the rich.
History does repeat itself.
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