Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report on Labor Organizations for the Year 1912: Labor Bulletin No. 96 (Being Part III of the Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor for 1913), October 10, 1913 Following the termination of the strike at Lawrence there occurred strikes of cotton - mill operatives in Lowell, of cotton-mill weavers in New Bedford, and of textile workers in other parts of the State, all of which were accompanied by increases in the membership of the Industrial Workers of the World. The older and more conservative organizations were stimulated to exert greater efforts to increase their membership. These organizing campaigns led to the formation of a large number of new organizations, some of them in occupations which heretofore had been poorly organized or in some cases wholly unorganized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.