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In 1903, 100,000 textile workers, some of the lowest paid industrial workers in the city, went out on strike in Philadelphia demanding a 55-hour work week. They lost the strike, but won national attention when labor activist Mother Jones led a "Children's Crusade" from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, New York beneath banners demanding "We want to go to School and not the mines!"
