Nottingham Evening Post 19 Apr 1899: Trumpington farm workers on strike

FARM LABOURERS’ STRIKE.

Following the example recently set by labourers of Hemingford Grey, the farm labourers of Trumpington, a village two miles distant from Cambridge, becoming dissatisfied with the conditions of labour, have come out on strike. The men demanded of the employers an advance in wages of 1s. per week, and further stipulated that they should cease work at four o’clock on Saturdays, instead of six. To the former request the employers acceded, but the question of shorter hours remains in abeyance. The men decline to resume work on any conditions but those named, and as a consequence agricultural work at Trumpington is at a standstill.

The farm labourers in East Yorkshire, who recently gave notice that unless they received an advance of wages from 15s. to 18s. per week, and were allowed a reduced working day of six to six, out and home, they would leave their employment, have accepted a compromise. Their wages have been raised 1s. 6d. per week, and their hours of labour reduced as asked for. The men receive much higher wages during the harvest.

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