It ended in April with modest gains for shoemakers, including pay increases and owner recognition of some labor unions.
Approximately 20,000 workers went on strike across New England which made it the largest mass walkout in American history prior to the Civil War.
Women played a crucial role in the strike, including the leading of a 6,000 person process through a late winter blizzard in Lynn on March 8 with signs reading "American Ladies Will Not Be Slaves: Give Us a Fair Compensation and We Will Labour Cheerfully".
[4] The strike, which had widespread community support, mostly ended on April 10 when 30 employers signed agreements to raise wages.
[2] A key leader of the strike was Alonzo G. Draper, who later became a Civil War General in the Union Army and died in 1865.