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This event, which popularly became known as <i>Black Friday<\/i>, is an iconic moment in Bristol\u2019s history exposing the relations of force between \u2018owners\u2019 and \u2018workers\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn 1892 in Bristol saw a violent class war between employers, strike-breaking labour and police on one side and strikers and their mass of working-class supporters on the other; picketing, mass marches and public meetings of thousands of \u2018new\u2019 industrial unionists were common. 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