Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" wrote: > > Luddites > > name given to bands of workingmen in the industrial centers of England who > rioted between 1811 and 1816. The uprisings began in Nottinghamshire, where > groups of textile workers, in the name of a mythical figure called Ned Ludd, > or King Ludd, destroyed knitting machines, to which they attributed the > prevailing unemployment and low wages. In 1812 workers in Lancashire, > Cheshire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire began to wreck cotton power looms > and wool shearing machines. There was no political aim involved and no > cohesion in the movement. Outbreaks of Luddism were very harshly suppressed > by the government. > But there was one man: John Carter who saved us all!!! He taught us how to fight the machines!!! Mark Rabiner