Some references to tin workers and a manager in here:
http://carmarthenshirehistorian.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Historian/SomeBygoneSocialFrictionsAnother Genuki article:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/NevillLlanelly.htmlThis from Carmarthen Journal of July 10th 1874
"Those among the locked-out tin-plate workers who have sense enough not to scorn the liberal offer which the masters have made in precise terms this week, have now had placed before them an opportunity of returning to work at the rates of wages which were being paid previous to the lock out.
The great number of men wandering about idle and starving, in all parts of South Wales where there are tin-plate works, has already been considerably reduced and will continue steadily to be made smaller by degrees until there is something like a thorough escape from the extremely unhappy state of matters which has been in existence for some time past.
Those of the workers however, who care to follow the unworthy example set them by men who were previous to the lock-out, in the employ of Messrs Thomas, Lester & Co, Carmarthen, will have a continuance of their present lamentable, and we cannot but think distasteful condition of life.
We fervently trust for the sake of the independence of the working man that the followers of the workmen to whom we have referred will be few; and we are even inclined to hope that the determination arrives at by various sets of workmen not to return to work at the old terms will now be cancelled.
This we are more encouraged to look for seeing that by the turn of affairs have taken this week it is plain ....even to those who have up to the present time been blind for that best of reasons they would not see ....that there is no possibility of the men gaining their ground, the fact being that the employers do not have it in their power to grant their demands; the markets will not allow it."
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