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23rd December 1892
by Roger Ball
Autumn 1892 in Bristol saw a violent class war between employers, strike-breaking labour and police on one side and strikers and their mass of working class supporters on the other. Picketing, mass marches and public meetings of thousands of ânewâ industrial unionists were common, culminating in the use of military and police by the local state to break up a pre-Christmas lantern parade organised to collect money for strikers and their families. This event, which popularly became known as âBlack Fridayâ, is an iconic moment in Bristolâs history exposing the relations of force between âownersâ and âworkersâ.
Bristol Radical Pamphleteer
56 pages
Black and White
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