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Birmingham Gazette – Thursday 16 March 1916
23 Women Strike – Munitions Court Sequel at Redditch – A sequel to the
refusal of 23 women employed at Messrs. H. Terry and Sons, spring manufacturers, Redditch
to work was heard at the local Munitions Tribunal, when the women were summoned under
the Munitions of War Act.
A representative of the National Union of Women Workers stated that the defendants
refused to work on the ground that they had not received their piece-work tickets on which
the price would be stated; but a director of the firm stated that although the tickets were not
ready at 8 a.m. they were so at one o’clock.
One of the girls now stated that the reason they refused to work was because they thought
they would not get as much money at the new rate as the old.
The defendants were each fined half of their weekly earnings.
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