Rotherham play celebrates success of women strikers

Rouse Ye Women will be performed next month at Rotherham Underground on Corporation Street.

Through rousing traditional songs and moving ballads, Townsend Theatre Productions reveal the story of the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath in the West Midlands.

In 1910, they began a successful ten-week strike, led by the charismatic union campaigner Mary Macarthur, to more than double their earnings and establish the principle of a national minimum wage.

Rouse Ye Women relates the horrors of sweated labour, Mary Macarthur’s national campaign to expose the perpetrators of this appalling employment, the universal sympathy for the workers, the flood of donations, and the events that led to a final victory.

The play will be at Rotherham Underground on Wednesday, April 10, at 7pm. Tickets cost £8 in advance or £10 on the door. 

Call 01709 202016 or visit www.rotherhamunderground.com to book.