THE STRIKES
... Tes mills continue closed and closing-the workmen insolent and starving-the rabble ora- tors braling and fattening on the spoil, and the Union in ftll mischief and malignity. In a few instances, the strike conspiracy has been defeated, but the 70,000 weavers and spinners of Preston and the neighbourhood walk about, with their idle hands in their empty pockets, waiting for the next remittance ...