Mill Girl Riots.
— o The east end of Glasgow has been the scene of disturbances arising out of what to the masculine mind, seem a ludicrously small matter. It is the custom in that region for the mill girls to wear no hats, but shawls over their heads. The girls employed in certain lace curtain mills, however, adopted hats instead of shawls, which greatly incensed the girls in other mills, who mobbed them on two successive evenings as they left their work On the second occasion the rioters numbered about 1000, and many of them were so violent that the police had to take them into custody. Three of them were afterwards fined 10s 6d each, with the alternative of a week's imprisonment. The obnoxious hat remains mistress of the situation. mm _ m _____ _________
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 19, 22 July 1895, Page 3
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