May 26
[W]orkers no longer in need of protection, the defiant laborers were now, as the Regent of the York Special Commission set up to quell machine-breaking would write, 'ill-designing and wicked Men' who are not just engaged in the 'Destruction of the various Kinds of Machinery now most beneficially employed in the Manufactures of this Kingdom," but are in fact 'destructive of the good Order and Happiness of Society.'
Thomas Dekeyser, Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine, p. 67