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...Class Movement Library 2014: The Woman Worker, September 1907, Volume 1 Number 1 The Ryedale Strike, 1912 On Friday March 22nd, 1912, 150 women employed as ‘fingerers’ at Ryedale came out on strike. Though they were not union members, on Tuesday 26th, a Scottish NFWW organiser, George Dallas, arrived in Dumfries and addressed their meetings, helping to select a...

...class children swimming for almost 100 years; Nicola Fisher, a local teacher who lived on Calder Street who had used the slipper baths for a hot bath for many years before internal bathrooms were installed into her tenement; Jean Adair, a daily swimmer and receptionist at the local Health Centre who attended the pool twice weekly for over 30 year with her disabled best...

...class solidarity. Two of the original strikers went on to serve on the strike committee of seven negotiating with the Singer management. They were resisting attempts by the employer to use them as a cheap, flexible secondary labour source. Some of this is even reflected in the comments of strike leaders at the time in the patronising language of the time referring to them...