TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS
CENTENARY COMMEMORATION. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, August 31. Many Labour organisations, including the Trades Union Congress, are holding the annual meetings near Dorchester, this week, to coincide with the commemoration of the centenary of Tolpuddle martyrs. Tolpuddle is a small village near Dorchester, and in 1834 farm labourers there having combined together to have their wages raised to 10/- per week, were sentenced under the Union unrepealed Emergency Act, 1797, to ©even years’ transportation, for administering an unlawful oath. Protests in Parliament and elsewhere were raised, and free pardons were granted before the sentences expired. This week’s Labour celebrations will mark the beginnings of the Trade Union niovement, and include the dedication of six cottages at Tolpuddle for aged workers, erected by the Trades Union Congress, and the unveiling oi a memorial in the village church.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1934, Page 7
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