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Newspaper
Freeholder
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 01, 1851
Page
11
A 300 percent tax on paper hinders labor and education, harming half a million workers. An influential pamphlet by T B Crompton informs this view. Citizens in London push for repeal via petitions, aiming to bolster education and employment. factory workers and teachers urged to mobilize petitions with many signatures.
A colonial era pamphlet denounces the paper duty as injurious to trades from rag collection to printing. It argues repeal would expand employment, lower book prices, and boost authors while detailing hundreds of mills, workers, and related crafts affected across the empire.
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