Posted 1/6/2019 08:26 (#7223979 - in reply to #7223500) Subject: RE: November 1968
S.E. Sask.
Steiger Man - 1/5/2019 20:44
I would believe that. Back in the old world when threshing machine finally became practical in the 1800s pheasant mobs used to attack and burn them down because they were getting put out of work. Some farmers who owned threshing machines even went back to the flail to not risk injury.
Makes me think of the "Swing Riots" and Captain Swing. I don't know if my great grandfather was involved but it would have been in his time and country that they happened. In the 1830s in South England the agricultural labourers were rioting and destroying farm machinery protesting the dismal working conditions. From what I have read it was a hard life indeed. The workers had no hopes of ever becoming anything better than landless labourers working for the "landed gentry". I guess it made Canada look like a pretty attractive alternative with it's free homestead land in the West. My grandfathers got to own land and harvest their own crops here. Something they could never have done back in England.
November 1968
