Entries for the tag ‘Oastler, Richard (1789-1861)’
"the Factory King," was a "Tory radical," an opponent of Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform, but also an abolitionist and opponent of the New Poor Law of 1834, and at the heart of the campaign for a ten-hour working day in its early years. 
- 29 September 1830: Tory Radical Richard Oastler writes that “free” white workers in the Bradford mills are worse off than their enslaved black counterparts in the colonies
- 23 April 1832: “Pilgrims” arrive at Leeds on Easter Monday on their way to York to hear Richard Oastler call for a 10-hour working day for mill children
- 4 December 1843: The Tory MP for Knaresborough recounts the death in poverty of an old woman at Harden Beck, Bingley
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