TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS
CENTENARY CELEBRATION
TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
(British Official Wireless.)
EUGBY, August 30.
Many Labour organisations, including the Trades Union Congress, are holding ■their annual meetings near Dorchester this week to coincide' with tho commemoration of .the centenary of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. ' ; • Tolpuddle is a small village near Dorchester, .and in 1834 iaxm . labourers there, having combined together to have their wages raised to 10s per week, ( were sentenced under sax unrepealed Emergency Act of 1797 to seven years' transportation for administering an. unlawful oath. Protests in Parliament and elsewhero were raised and froe pardons were granted before the sentences expired.
This week's Labour celebrations to mark th.e~beginuings of \the.trade union movement include the dedication of six cottages at Tolpuddlo for aged workers, erected by the Trades Union Congress and the travelling of a memorial in the village church. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1934, Page 9
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