The Great Boot Strike.
[Pet Press Association] \ London, March IG. The boot strike effects half a million employees, including women and apprentices. The majority of factories have arranged to close for six weeks Some of the owners are barricading windows and doors in anticipation of an attack being made on the buildings. The Union Reserve Fnnd amounts to L60.000. March 17. A protracted struggle is expected. There is no hope at present of settling the strike. The masters have issued a manifesto, in which they state that they are arranging to form a non-union benefit society, and intend to support it by large subscriptions. They also offer to re-employ Unionist strikers if they agree to become non-unionists.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 221, 19 March 1895, Page 3
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117The Great Boot Strike. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 221, 19 March 1895, Page 3
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