SECTION IV. Combinations of Workmen

COMBINATIONS OF WORKMEN

1. A Strike of the Journeymen Feltmakers, 1696-99 619

2. A Petition of Master Tailors against Combination among the Journeymen, 1721 622

3. A Dispute in the Northumberland and Durham Coal Industry, 1765 625

4. Sickness and Unemployment Benefit Clubs among the Woolcombers, 1794 626

5. Combination Act, 1799 626

6. Combination Act, 1800 627

7. The Scottish Weavers' Strike, 1812 631

8. The Repeal of the Combination Acts, 1824 633

9. A Prosecution of Strikers under the Common Law of Conspiracy, 1810 635

10. An Act Revising the Law affecting Combinations, 1825 636

11. The Conviction of the Dorchester Labourers, 1834 638

12. An Address of the Working Men's Association to Queen Victoria, 1837 641

13. A Chartist Manifesto on the Sacred Month, 1839 642

14. The Rochdale Pioneers, 1844 643