Soon enough they will become insistently loud. In 1867 a statutory commission ...

Soon enough they will become insistently loud. In 1867 a statutory commission sitting at Sheffield, long notorious as a disturbed area, elicited the fact that the Secretary of the Saw-grinders Union was responsible for one murder and twelve other serious assaults on unpopular employers and their workpeople.

These outrages were isolated and irresponsible.

But they called attention sharply to the growing discord between the law and the economic system which it reflected on the one side, and on the other the necessary conditions of labour.