‘The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser’, 13 August, 1842: Serious disturbances

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SERIOUS DISTURBANCES BY TURN-OUTS AND CHARTISTS
(From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday.)
We regret to state, that this week has witnessed the commencement [beginning] of a series of disturbances in this town and neighbourhood, which at present have a very threatening appearance, and will require the utmost firmness and vigilance on the part of the civil and military authorities.
Although these disturbances have taken the appearance of a turn-out for wages, we believe that they have, in fact, a totally different origin, and are intimately connected with the recent outbreaks in Staffordshire and Scotland. As, however, a threatened reduction of wages at Stalybridge has been seized upon as the pretext [excuse] for their commencement, we will state what we understand to have occurred in reference to that abatement …