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The Daily Bleed: A Calendar Better Than Boiled Coffee! Timeline, Chronology, Labor, Radical, Arts, Literature, ... |
 | | In October 1910 Honley Feast, a carnival at which association football was played, together with the Fartown football matches, brought 42 summonses against workers for French leave. |
| | The summonses were to show to the police why the workers should not pay fines for absenting themselves from work without permission. |
| | French leave was described like this by “The Worker”: "As a result of the belated but beautiful fine sunnier weather at Honley Feast aided by attractive football fixtures at Fartown the servitude in the compounds was more than usually uninviting and hundreds of operatives took French leave. |
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