Catalogue Number
NMLH.2005.26
Object Name
Poster
Title
Turn-Out At Manchester An Address From The Journeymen Spinners Of Manchester To Their Brother Spinners Throughout the United Kingdom...-Masters...Proposed Five Months Ago To Reduce Our Wages By 30 Per Cent
Place
Manchester & Lancashire & England & UK
People
Doherty, John
Events
strike
Date
1829
Creator(s)
Description
Poster or notice in very bad condition: large pieces missing from top and bottom edges and central: severe staining and cracking. Some of the text is missing. Main lettering is in bold type at top. The cause of the strike: proposal to reduce wages by 30%.
OSP script: Turn-out at Manchester, 1829
In April 1829 Manchester industrialists began to cut the wages of cotton spinners. The Manchester Spinners' Union went on strike for six months. However, facing starvation, the spinners were forced back to work. John Doherty, the union's leader, was an advocate of universal suffrage and a friend of Henry Hunt who had spoken at Peterloo.
