[Peace-discuss] Fw: CLNews: Bread and Roses Grave Marked

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From: Richard Myers 
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Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: CLNews: Bread and Roses Grave Marked



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From: "Seth Wigderson" <wigderso at CC.UMANITOBA.CA>
To: <H-LABOR at H-NET.MSU.EDU>


From: Dexter Arnold <dekearnold at yahoo.com>

The graves of the three Lawrence, Mass. workers killed during the 1912 strike and the ensuing God and Country counterattack all have Bread and Roses markers.

On May Day, 1998, I was in Lawrence for a union meeting and went looking for the martyrs' graves. One had a family headstone and the other two were unmarked. I asked questions and thanks to the hard work and leadership of Dave Morris, retired assistant business manager of IBEW Local 2321 and head of the former Lawrence Central Labor Union, all three are now marked.

This year's Labor Day activities in Lawrence began with the dedication of a Bread and Roses stone next to John Ramey's family headstone. On January 30, 1912, a militia member bayoneted Ramey in the back while the 16-year-old mill worker and other Syrian musicians were preparing to lead a march through the tenement district.

Local historian Jonas Stundza spearheaded the effort to place the Bread and Roses marker on the Ramey family plot. The American Lebanese Awareness Association played a major role in this effort.

In 2000 and 2002, we placed headstones on the unmarked graves of Anna LoPizzo, the first strike martyr, and Jonas Smalskas, who was beaten to death during the fall, 1912 God and Country crusade for wearing an IWW pin. Stundza is now working with cemetery officials to designate the section with the three strikers' graves as a Bread and Roses site.



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