TARIF au minimum des prix de la façon des étoffes de soie, librement débattu et consenti entre les délégués des fabricans et des ouvriers ..... du 25 octobre 1831, pour recevoir son exécution à partir de Ier novembre prochain.

Lyon, J.M. Boursy, (1831). Folio poster on white paper (38,3 x 44,5 cm), folded and bound in a small 4to volume. Modern half morocco. Not in Charléty. Following a slump in production at the beginning of 1831 and following a petition by the weavers and others demanding a new tariff in October, the new prefect of the Rhone, Bouvier Dumoulard, ordered weavers and merchant representatives to negociate new piecework rates. A preliminary agreement was arrived at on October 31. When it became apparent that many merchants ignored it and that some even withheld commission for new work to indicate their displeasure at any attempt to fix the cost of labor, the weavers responded with a strike and when National Guard units composed largely of merchants and their clerks fired on demonstrators a general uprising began. It was suppressed by Marchal De Soult at the cost of 550 lives. During this revolt the first black flags appeared with the devise: Vivre en travaillant, ou mourir en combattant (see: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, vol. i, p. 654). - Some staining. A document of great importance and of great rarity.