The beginning of the twentieth century saw the rise of socialism
and the union movement in the United States. Immigration brought
waves of Europeans into the mill towns of the Northeast. With this
came overcrowded tenements, income disparity, and anti-immigrant
sentiment. All of these elements converged In Little Falls, New
York, a mill city in the Mohawk Valley of central New York. Strike
Story is a dramatic retelling of events leading up to and during
the Little Falls, New York, Textile Strike of 1912. Presented as
readers' theatre, the play relies on the words of people involved
as well as the published accounts of the events from contemporary
newspapers and material from government documents. The play
dramatizes the impact of the tuberculosis crisis in Little Falls,
the role of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on mills throughout New
York State, and the day-by-day events of the strike with focus on
the free speech fight and the riot of October 30, 1912.
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