Catalogue Number
NMLH.2005.36.6
Object Name
Poster
Title
The Seventh Report And 8th Week Of The Strike Of Mr A. Robertshaw's Weavers, Gauxholme, Near Todmorden. To The Operatives Of Todmorden, Walsden......
Place
Gauxholme Mill, Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, UK
People
A. Robertshaw
Events
Weavers Strike
Date
1851
Creator(s)
Description
Badly stained paper report, possibly a poster. Mostly consists of text; A transcript of a report by the Committee of the 1851 strike by the weavers follows:
"âThe Labourer is the upholder of capital as well as the producer of all wealthâ
THE SEVENTH REPORT AND 8TH WEEK OF THE STRIKE
of Mr. Robertshawâs Weavers, Gauxholme, near Todmorden
To the operatives of Todmorden, Walsden, Littleborough, Bacup and the surrounding Districts,
Friends, Fellow Workmen, and the Public generally.
In presenting to you our seventh report, we have to express our sincere and hearty thanks for the liberal support which you have tendered to us up to the present time; and we hope that you will still feel and see it to be your duty to continue to assist us in the struggle in which we are at present engaged. As regards the grievances existing betwixt us and our late employer, they still remain unsettled; neither have we received anything from him since the last that we reported. We feel that to be engaged in a struggle like ours in the present season of the year is very trying, as it respects our health; but not withstanding this, we still feel as united and determined as ever to preserve our present struggle, until our grievances are fully redressed.
If that piece of dirty suet, âOld Robertshawâs engine tenterâ, do not mind his own business, and let alone ours, we will shortly ask him how long it is since he received a gill of ale for running ten minutes over time; and how many gills for similar tricks.
Also one of our late Overlookers, Thomas Horsfall by name, has offered during the past week to go in and weave up the work in the looms, if one of the other Overlookers would go in with him; but the others absolutely refused to do so, and therefore things remain as they were in that respect. But we think that such a disposition manifested by him indicates something similar to the disposition of a knobstick.
A Delegate Meeting will be held at the Hop Tree and Barleycorn Tavern, Todmorden Road, Bacup, every Thursday evening, to commence at half past 8 oâclock, when delegates from every factory are requested to attend. The Committee will also sit at the above place every Saturday from 4 to 7 oâclock in the evening to receive subscriptions.
He is a tyrant â that is true!
But he was once as poor as you.
He went about a selling print;
But now his heart is hard as flint.
Be firm, and then weâre not too poor
To send the tyrant back to Shore."
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