The Cradley Heath Workers' Institute was built between 1911 and 1912 in Lomey Town, Cradley Heath, West Midlands, England. It was built as a social centre for the people of Cradley Heath and surroundi
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Mary Reid Anderson was a Scottish suffragist and was a leading trade unionist. She was the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation of the National Federat
Cradley Heath Workers' Institute
…Institute was funded using money left over from the strike fund of the 1910 Women Chainmakers' Strike, led by the charismatic union organiser and leader Mary Macarthur. The dispute ended on the 22 October 1910 when the last of the employers agreed to pay the minimum wage. Between 1915 and 1933 it largely functioned…
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Macarthur addresses a mass meeting in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Corruganza box makers strike, 1908
Macarthur addressing the crowds during the chainmakers' strike, Cradley Heath 1910
Handbill for an 11 April 1910 National Federation of Women Workers meeting to discuss the chainmakers' strike, with Macarthur's name, as president of the federation, prominent