sentences:  Before the Lawrence Strike and the trial for the death of Anna LoPizzo, many businessmen categorically refused to recognize any unions.After the strike, the American Federation of Labor was courted by some employers, if only as a bulwark against the radical and militant Industrial Workers of the World.Carlson records,
  
  Shortly after the Lawrence strike, John Golden, president of the AFL's United Textile Workers union (a rival to the IWW's organizing efforts in Lawrence), observed that frightened mill owners "are falling all over themselves now to do business with our organization."