13/17 But I heard also that the bricklayers' labourers at Blackburn struck work last week for an advance of wages from 3s.6d.a day to 4s. This seems very untimely, to say the least of it. Apart from these things, there is, amongst all classes, a kind of cheery faith in the return of good times, although nobody can see what they may have to go through yet, before the clouds break. It is a fact that there are more than forty new places ready, or nearly ready, for starting, in and about Blackburn, when trade revives. |