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Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2009 12:37 am
by Steve Jones
I just came across this fascinating site about the Leeds Rent Strike of 1934:
http://freespace.virgin.net/labwise.history6/1934.htmlI had never heard of this before stumbling across it by accident looking for something else!
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2009 12:43 am
by cnosni
Ive come across it before,but it failed.
Posted: Thu 10 Sep, 2009 3:25 pm
by carith
was'nt there another rent strike in middleton around 1981?
Posted: Fri 11 Sep, 2009 10:41 am
by cnosni
carith wrote: was'nt there another rent strike in middleton around 1981? More like an Air strike
Posted: Fri 11 Sep, 2009 3:46 pm
by electricaldave
One message I take from that site is just how stratified and class ridden society was back then, everyone seems to have had someone to look down upon.
Posted: Fri 11 Sep, 2009 5:43 pm
by carith
Air-strike !Must have been better than the last major pit strike.