[1][5] Alongside the UTW, the IWW and ATW played major organizing roles within it, with the strike lasting for around 200 days at most mills.

In the Blackstone Valley the United Textile Workers locals responded to the mill owners' announcements, calling a strike.

The non-unionized workers of the Blackstone mills immediately joined after hearing about the UTW local's decision to strike.

[6] By February, the mills of both the valleys were shut down, and the strike had spread to textile firms in Providence, Rhode Island, Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Manchester, New Hampshire.

[2] The strike began at the Royal Mill, West Warwick in the Pawtuxet Valley and spread quickly.

[4] On April 29, Deputy Sheriffs began serving eviction notices to the families of strikers that occupied company houses within the Pawtuxet Valley.

[7] On the morning of February 21, in Pawtucket, police shot into a crowd of a 1,000 people who had gathered at the plant of the Jenckes Spinning Company.

[6][8] Juan D'Assumpcau,[d] a nearby grocer clerk, was killed by police fire, and ended up being shot in the backside seven times.

[6][8] A local newspaper from the time gives a higher number of casualties, with two men killed and 50 wounded, ten severely.

Reportedly before the shooting, Pawtucket Mayor Robert A. Kenyon at the plant read the Riot Act out loud.

[8] Another account claims Mayor Kenyon fired their pistol up into the air shortly before the shooting occurred.

[4] On June 5, Pontiac Mills started evicting 150 people, 50 families from their mill-owned homes.

[13] Latter that afternoon, Rhode Island Judge Justice Tanner issued a restraining order not allowing the eviction of tenants in either Pontiac or Natick.

played a crucial role in the organizing within Lawrence, mobilizing the mass meetings, rallies, and pickets.

The UTW's refusal to cooperate with other unions (I.W.W., Mulespinners, AFL Loomfixer's) weakened the Lawrence mill's strike.

[6] Late in August, it was announced that wages would be restored to their previous levels before the reduction, with back pay,[3][4] at the Lawrence mills.