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'Christmas Bills', 1872. A husband and wife take very different views of the benefits of striking. There had been many strikes in London, and throughout England, during 1872. Amongst them were the Metropolitan Police, London's gas-workers, the bakers and the carpenters. The armed forces, though, considered this mutiny - as did Punch. From Punch, or the London Charivari, December 14, 1872.