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After the failure of Thomson’s proposal, the reformers continued their campaign to support Hindley’s Bill. On 23 May 1836 a large crowd assembled outside the Bradford court-house to start a new agitation. Fielden threatened that if ‘Ten Hours’ were not obtained by Act, they would be gained ‘in another way’. Cunliffe-Lister, William Walker, William Rand and Bull heard Oastler expand on this theme: ‘if they don’t give us a ten hours Bill quietly, we will strike and do better’. Next day at Leeds, supported by Hill and Mark Crabtree, Oastler repeated: 1
If they don’t give us a Ten Hours Bill, the children shall not work: that is all. … I am tired of reasoning….
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H. Hamer: Bolton, 1838–1938 (Bolton, 1939), 17; Yorkshire, 56; Cudworth, Horton, 223.
W. E. Monypenny: Life of Disraeli (1910), I, 373; Baines, Life, 237; The Times, 11 July.
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Ward, J.T. (1962). The Poor Law Struggle. In: The Factory Movement, 1830–1855. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81759-7_7
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