Get up, stand up, marching for our rights!

• Mary Macarthur rallying the crowd in Cradley Heath
• A crowded meeting, Express and Star 23.8.1910
• Workers withdraw signatures, Daily News 25.8.1910
• Slaves of the Forge, Daily Express, 1.9.1910
• Confident of success, Express and Star, 27.8.1910
• Women on strike, Midland Evening News 31.8.1910
• They sang as they marched
• England's Disgrace
• Meeting outside the Empire Theatre
• Leaving the Empire Theatre carrying free loaves of bread

 

“The forges were stilled, and from court and alley forth came the women. In their ragged working clothes, in their best clothes – so little different; in bonnets, in hats, bareheaded, with babies born and unborn, they swarmed into the high street and formed across it behind the band. A strange, magpie, jay-like flock; black, white, patched with brown and green and blue, shifting, chattering, laughing, ……..� (John Galsworthy, "The Inn of Tranquility and other Impressions", describing a strike procession of the Cradley Heath women chainmakers in 1910.)

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• Get up, stand up, marching for our rights!

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