Newspaper Extract
Shoemakers Strike - at Rotherham
May, 1857Owing to pressure of business, one of the master shoemakers at Rotherham, hired some men who were not connected with the operative union of that branch of the trade.
The union hands immediately refused to work, until the non union men were discharged.
A meeting of the masters was held, at which it was resolved to support their brother tradesmen in the course he had adopted, and also to discharge every union hand in the town, unless the men went back to work.
This was refused and all the refractory workmen were discharged; the masters adopting a resolution never in future to employ any workmen connected with the Journeyman Boot and Shoemakers Union.
