Word: sunderland
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eight-hour law," or the rights of labor. For the least educated portion of society to have caught so quickly the sentiments of the most advanced thinkers would, no long time ago, have been impossible; but now Mr. Ruskin finds a correspondent among the "working" cork-cutters of Sunderland, and mechanics and laborers, to the horror of some very respectable people of monarchical tendencies, are fast equipping themselves with all the weapons that education can furnish...