We only want what the Trade Board promised!

• Women chainmakers
• News report- conditions in the chainshops
• Letter to the Editor from W Rowlands
• Interview with Mary Macarthur
• Letter to the Editor from Mary Macarthur
• Report of Mary's article in the "Christian Commonwealth"

 

In 1909 the Chain Trade Board set a minimum wage for the hand-made chain section of the industry, but it took several months and an all-out strike to make sure the women chainmakers received what they were entitled to.

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