The Lawrence textile strike Attack , also known as the Bread and Roses strike Attack , was a strike Attack of immigrant workers in Lawrence , Massachusetts , in 1912 led Causation by the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) .

The Lawrence textile strike Attack , also known as the Bread and Roses strike Attack , was a strike Attack of immigrant workers in Lawrence , Massachusetts , in 1912 led Causation by the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) .

Prompted by a two-hour pay Commerce_pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the workweek for women , the strike Attack spread Filling rapidly through the town , growing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to more than twenty thousand workers and involving nearly every mill in Lawrence .

IWW leaders Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn came to Motion Lawrence to run Motion the strike Attack .

The move drew Causation widespread sympathy , especially after police stopped Process_end a further exodus , leading to Causation violence Violence at the Lawrence train station .

Congressional hearings followed , resulting in exposure of shocking conditions in the Lawrence mills and calls for investigation of the `` wool trust . ''

Mill owners soon decided Deciding to settle Resolve_problem the strike Attack , giving Giving workers in Lawrence and throughout New England raises Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale of up to 20 percent .

Within a year , however , the IWW had largely collapsed Destroying in Lawrence .

The Lawrence strike Attack is often referred to as the `` Bread and Roses '' strike Attack .

A 1915 labor anthology , `` The Cry for Justice : An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest '' by Upton Sinclair , attributed the phrase to the Lawrence strike , and the association stuck Preserving .

Captain Dennis Lawrence , an employee of TAA who was travelling Traveling as a passenger , assisted Assistance Bennett to subdue and disarm the hijacker .

Tom Bennett was awarded Award the George Medal for his actions and Captain Lawrence was commended Judgment_communication .

Two weeks after the arrest Arrest , he told Telling his friend , journalist Sharon Lawrence , that his fear of needles discouraged him from using Using heroin and that associating with junkies had convinced Coming_to_believe him it was not a drug he wanted to use Using .

`` Paquete de Maule '' was a 400-ton sidewheel steamer built Building by Lawrence & Foulks in 1861 at Williamsburg , New York for G. K. Stevenson & Co. , who planned Arranging to operate Being_in_operation the vessel between Valparaiso and Maule .

At Boston , Captain James Lawrence took command Control of `` Chesapeake '' on 20 May 1813 , and on 1 June , put Placing to sea to meet Come_together the waiting Temporary_stay HMS `` Shannon '' , commanded Control by Captain Philip Broke , the frigate whose written challenge had just missed `` Chesapeake '' s sailing Self_motion .

Lawrence himself was mortally wounded Bodily_harm and was carried Carry_goods below .

During the war , Canada was subject Causation to direct attack in the Battle of the St. Lawrence , and in the shelling of a lighthouse at Estevan Point in British Columbia .

The Nag Hammadi massacre Killing gained Getting widespread Dispersal international attention , and was condemned Judgment_communication by Pope Benedict XVI , Lebanese MP Nadim Gemayel , Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini , and Canadian foreign minister Lawrence Cannon .

The Jaybirds won the fight and seized Hold control of the county government soon afterward , with the collaboration of Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross , who established Building martial law in the county .

Moving Motion into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence later that day , the storm transitioned Change into an extratropical cyclone .

The test Testing series was notable as containing the first time an Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile AFAP artillery shell was fired Use_firearm ( `` GRABLE '' Shot ) , the first two shots ( both fizzles ) by University of California Radiation Laboratory—Livermore ( now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ) , and for testing out Testing some of the thermonuclear components that would be used Using for the massive thermonuclear series of Operation Castle .

Admiral Walker also had difficulty acquiring Getting experienced pilots and accurate charts for navigating the waters of the lower Saint Lawrence River .

The expedition reached Arriving the Gulf of Saint Lawrence without incident , but foggy conditions , tricky currents , and strong winds combined Cause_to_amalgamate to drive Motion the fleet toward the north shore of the river near a place now called Pointe-aux-Anglais , where the ships were wrecked Destroying .

Winds from the storm peaked Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale at in St. Lawrence , Newfoundland ; other locations across the island reported Reporting winds of .