Penrhyn Quarry Strike,1900-1903

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Penrhyn Quarry Strike,1900-1903
  1. was one of the largest disputes ever seen in the industrial history of Britain.
    1. They walked out marking the beginning of the Great Strike of Penrhyn. A month later Young offered new terms to the quarrymen, but they were accepted by just 77 workers.
      1. Four hundred men returned to work, receiving a sovereign each and the promise of a 5% pay increase. This caused anxiety in the area and the bitterness turned to violence when pub windows and those of the men that had returned to work, were smashed. The names of those who had broken the strike were published in the Y Werin and Eco newspapers.
        1. Around the same time, a card appeared in windows in the Bethesda area, with the words “Nid oes Bradwr yn y ty hwn” (there is no traitor in this house) printed on it. The cards were displayed in the windows of strikers’ homes, dividing the local community into two:
          1. By 1902, 700 men had returned to the quarry and another 2,000 had moved from the area. Most went to work in the coalfields of South Wales.
    2. The Penrhyn Slate Quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda. At the end of the nineteenth century it was the world's largest slate quarry and worked by nearly 3,000 quarrymen.
      1. Emilieus young was lord Penrhyns manager.
        1. Lord Penrhyn had been trying everything he could to eliminate the North Wales Quarrymen's Union's influence within the quarry. In April 1900 quarry manager Mr Emilieus Young announced trade union contributions would not be collected at the quarry.
          1. Lord Penrhyn’s equally lucrative Welsh slate and Caribbean sugar investments led him to nickname his daughters Emma and Juliana, “Sugar” and “Slate”.
            1. this is Lord Penrhyn
              1. this is Emilies young
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