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 .

He had also performed Participation the work Being_in_operation during his 13th consecutive seven-day workweek .