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 .

On 7 October , hundreds of ethnic Chinese , many of them sugar mill workers , killed Killing 50 Dutch soldiers , leading Causation Dutch troops to confiscate Removing all weapons from the Chinese populace and to place Placing the Chinese under a curfew .

Outside the city walls , clashes Hostile_encounter continued between Dutch troops and rioting sugar mill workers .

On September 17 , 1864 , McIntosh 's force burned Bodily_harm a mill on Abraham 's Creek near the Winchester Pike and Jones Mill on Opequon Creek .

On August 16 , Union assaults near the mill were initially successful , but Confederate counterattacks drove Motion the Federals back .