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It was not the conditions of work, or of their housing out of work butby a wage cut at Manningham Mills, Bradford, UK, in 1891, by the inventor of the machine that sealed the doom of the wool comber Samuel Cunliffe Lister (himeself derived from a business partnership of a glazier and wool stapler). Blue on blue. The bitter strike (which failed) led to the rise of the Labour party and socialism in the UK (to improve the lot of the oppressed side of the working man). The 3 aims from the outset were: (1) reduction in the wage to 8 hours a day or 48 hours per week (2) a program of public works and (3) land colonies. These seem reasonable if not beset with significant practical problems (as was realized from the outset). Equalizing reward means sharing in the doing with it's reward. But what if someone wants to work more? or if you are at a vital stage of a task (a plumbing task e.g.) and your time is up! No comment on conditions of work or fair pay for work (the actual instigator of the strike). Obviously if more people are working get them doing useful work that benefits more, the disenfranchised. But who pays for it (the seed of the strike in the first place again). Land colonoies? This was an attempt to get back to the land, the means of living, by making it available - where everthing atarts - so it makes sense. But where is the land in the UK to dish out? Look at the map of Bradford in 1906 around when all this got going! And somebody already owns it - where do you get the money from to buy it? There were plans to set up colonies in Canada (land for the workers), where relations were still friendly after the taxation(!) in the 13 colonies of the States. Not everybody's cup of tea.

Paul D. Foy:
This is a walk up to Manningham Mills. 'https://youtu.be/QeC8fbJAvO8'. Think about being a small cog (or child) scurrying around the machines in this monolithic prison of a workplace, turning out velvets for the well-heeled.

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