{"id":5822,"date":"2014-01-05T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2014-01-05T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T12:03:08","slug":"introducing-chipping-nortons-real-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2014\/01\/introducing-chipping-nortons-real-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Chipping Norton&#8217;s Real Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The events in December to mark the 100th anniversary of the Bliss Mill stike in Chipping Norton have made this weekend&#8217;s addition of The Morning Star.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chipping Norton, a small picturesque Cotswold market town in deepest Oxfordshire, will be associated in the minds of those who don&#8217;t know it with a few notorious names.<\/p>\n<p>Those would be its local MP, one David Cameron, Rebekah Brooks, the disgraced former CEO of News International and the pompous television petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, none of them were present just before Christmas at an event much more representative of the townspeople &#8211; the centenary celebration of the start of the legendary Bliss Tweed mill strike of 1913-14.<\/p>\n<p>The original mill owner, William Bliss, was a paternalistic employer known for &#8220;good works&#8221; in the town&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However a fire at the mill and a recession in the woollen trade had led to bankruptcy for the Bliss family and a takeover by the Birmingham Metropolitan Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The bank installed Arthur Dunstan, a particularly hostile accountant, as the mill&#8217;s new managing director.<\/p>\n<p>This coincided with growing workplace activism, not just in industrial towns but also in the countryside. By mid-December 1913 at least 230 Bliss mill workers had joined the newly formed branch of the Workers&#8217; Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the whole article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstaronline.co.uk\/a-20d4-Introducing-Chipping-Nortons-real-heroes\">The Moring Star webiste.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Details of Mike Richardson&#8217;s pamphlet on the strike can be found on the <a title=\"Bristol Radical Pamphleteer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/bristol-radical-pamphleteer\/\">Pamphlet Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The events in December to mark the 100th anniversary of the Bliss Mill stike in Chipping Norton have made this weekend&#8217;s addition of The Morning Star. Chipping Norton, a small picturesque Cotswold market town in deepest Oxfordshire, will be associated in the minds of those who don&#8217;t know it with a few notorious names. 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