The strike that started in Gonzaga however spread to nearby municipalities in Bondeno, Ostiglia, Quistello, Revere, Bagnolo, Borgoforte, Sustinente and Serravalle a Po': the key demand was that no labor would be done for less than two and a half lira's day-wage, and tension lasted for weeks. The strike was repeated, even more widespread, in 1885, this time associated with the cry of "La Boje" (first used by striking farmhands in nearby Rovigo province) - "it boils" - a term later used by historians to describe the entire set of strikes that agitated the Po valley between 1883 and 1885. Activists and striking workers were arrested across the lower Mantuan area, and in nearby provinces in Modena, Reggio, Cremona and Rovigo, leading the Bishop of Mantua and MPs to despair the arrival of the new "Red Gospel" in the Lombard countryside.