The phrase `` bread and roses '' actually preceded the strike Attack , appearing Coming_to_be in a poem by James Oppenheim published Publishing in `` The American Magazine '' in December 1911 .

< br > Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes ; < br > Hearts starve as well as bodies ; give us bread , but give us roses !

at the same time , they undertook Action a formal siege Besieging of roses .

During the whole show Theo Hutchcraft throws Body_movement in a crowd white roses on long stems with cut off spikes , there are usually about 10 pieces in a rider .

They usually hand roses to a number of female spectators .

the wars of the roses were a series of english civil wars for control of the throne of england fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal house of plantagenet : the house of lancaster , associated with the red rose of lancaster , and the house of york , whose symbol was the white rose of york .