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Blantyre Miners Dispute, 1893

By March 1893, Blantyre miners were getting annoyed, more so than usual. For some months previous, there was a growing rumour at Dixon’s Pits that the miners were deliberately being underpaid. It affected over 600 men employed at Dixon’s four Blantyre pits and so a meeting was help in High Blantyre’s Masonic building, where it […]