Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 11 August 1893
The Denaby Strike.
Mr. W. H. Hawkins writes from Ivy House Farm, Denaby Main, as follows:
“I have aroused the ire of a certain section of the miners at Denaby from no active part of my own, simply from being a creature of circumstances in this way.
Tuesday morning last, about five a.m., a posse of police were ordered to Denaby, and were sent into my buildings to be in readiness if a row should take place, which in my opinion will not come off.
Because the police were on my farm, which I could not prevent, I am threatened with all dire pains and penalties, such as being murdered, crops on the farm destroyed, and my stacks fired.
Now I do not believe that the responsible part of the miners will sanction such things, for I am pleased to say I have firm friends among them, and have been in and out nearly all hours of the day and night among them for over six years, and never so much as received one insult from them. The greater part of the miners know how to behave themselves.
But this tale of my asking the police to come was invented by a vile coward, whose track I am on, and hope at last to run him down, when he will get his deserts.
I hope the strike will soon be over.”