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High wages, overtime pay, everybody back at work and those workers did more than improve their own lives, they changed america. within weeks more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got raises. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law [cheers and applause] and today there are no children working in factories. [cheers] we have national minimum wage and national worker safety laws. ewould get paid overtime and we now have a 40-hour week. that's right. that's right. because of the workers here in lawrence and all a...

And those workers did more than improve their own lives. they changed america. within weeks, more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got raises. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law. and today, there are no children working in factories. we have a national minimum wage and national worker safety laws. workers get paid overtime and we now have a 40-hour week. that's right. that's right. because of the workers right here in lawrence and all across the country, we have weekends. the story of lawrence is a stor...