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Humble, hard-toiling, peasant-bred Lancashire has stood for other wage cuts, but this was to the bone. With quiet, orderly determination?with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence???500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cotton Crisis | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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