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Derby honours silk workers’ bitter lockout battle
The annual Silk Mill Festival celebrates the first-ever industrial workers’ strike in Britain, which, although it ended in defeat, laid the template for today’s union movement, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
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“REMEMBER the past, fight for your future,” is — as it is every year — the rallying cry at Derby’s annual Silk Mill Festival.
Derby’s Silk Mill Festival marks the year-long struggle of Derby and Derwent Valley silk mill workers from 1833-34, against oppressive and ruthless owners and managers who routinely ripped off their already low-paid workers through spurious pay cuts — and denied them trade union rights with the threat of instant dismissal.
Does this sound familiar 190 years on?
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