Town officials responded to the strike by bringing in additional police officers from nearby municipalities, and local media disparaged the strikers.

On June 10, in an event known locally as "Bloody Tuesday", police opened fire on a group of strikers near the gates of the mill, killing one bystander and injuring several others.

By the end of July, the strike had collapsed, and an October article in The Quincy Daily Ledger stated that by that time, many of the strikers had left Ipswich.

[3] Like many towns in the region during this time, Ipswich had a strong textile industry and was home to a large population of immigrants,[4] primarily Greeks and Poles.

[5] Stockholders in this mill included several influential figures in the state, such as William Loring, a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and William Lawrence, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts,[3] while the mill town itself was led by George Scofield,[note 2] a local politician and publisher of the Ipswich Chronicle newspaper.

[4] In 1912, Pingree pushed for the Ipswich Mills to enforce a state law stipulating a maximum workweek of 54 hours for the millworkers.

[9] Over the next several weeks, several hundred strikers, primarily English-speakers, began to defect and return to work, though many Greek and Polish workers remained on the picket line.

All they wanted is to shoot the goddamn foreigners" On the evening of Tuesday, June 10, a large group of strikers were picketing near the front gates of the mill.

[10] According to a contemporary report from the International Socialist Review, there was a confrontation between some of the picketers and strikebreakers, and a group of police began to arrest some of the strikers.

[5][6] Those arrested were charged with murder,[10] as police officers claimed that Paudelopoulou had been killed by someone firing a gun from a nearby second-story vantage point.

[2] In October 1913, The Quincy Daily Ledger reported that, by that time, many of the strikers who had been involved in the strike had been evicted and had relocated from Ipswich.

[5] On June 10, 2022, the 109th anniversary of "Bloody Tuesday",[6] the plaque was dedicated near the site of the event,[14][7] on property now owned by EBSCO Industries.

[5] The event included a procession of dozens of individuals from the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church to the plaque in downtown.