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Steelworks Youths’ Strike

October 1937

Leeds Mercury – Wednesday 27 October 1937

Steelworks Youths’ Strike

Over 100 youths on strike over wage rates at the Kilnhurst steelworks of John Baker and Bessemer, Ltd., near Mexborough, called a meeting yesterday, and decided to continue the stoppage.

Although work is not completely held up, it is seriously impeded, adult workers finding difficulty in carrying on normally