 | Strikes
Robert Docherty "We had unofficial strikes. There was quite often the likes of individual departments would have a dispute, but it was mostly the weavers that had the disputes, there would be unofficial disputes. We walked out quite a lot. One main reason for the walk outs would be the cold in the winter time. When you went into the weaving shed, it would be freezing cold and you could hardly touch the loom because the metal was that cold. It was difficult to heat the weaving shed because of the height of it. That was one main dispute we had was cold in the winter time." Robert Docherty was a carpet weaver with Stoddard’s carpets in Elderslie. He started work in 1957 when he was 15 |  | |
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