The Times led demands to execute and transport English machine-breaking workers

Evidence

[I]t was the organ of middle-class Radicalism, The Times, which led the outcry for examples of severity. The advice was followed: “On the 9th of January , judgment of death was recorded against twenty three prisoners, for the destruction of a paper machine in Buckingham; in Dorset, on the 11th, against three, for extorting money, and two for robbery; at Norwich, fifty-five prisoners were convicted of machine-breaking and rioting; at Ipswich, three, for extorting money; at Petworth, twenty-six for machine-breaking and rioting; at Gloucester, upwards of thirty; at Oxford, twenty-nine; and at Winchester, out of upwards of forty convicted, six were left for execution… . At Salisbury, forty-four prisoners were convicted.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 261

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The English Enclosure Acts forced peasants off commons land into factory labor. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1365