TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS
CENTENARY COMMEMORATION LABOUR CELEBRATIONS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 31. (Received August 31, at 5,5 p.m.) Many Labour organisations, including the Trades Union Congress, are holding their annual meetings near Dorchester this week to coincide with commemoration of the centenary of the Tolpuddle martyrs. Tolpuddle is a, small village near Dorchester, and in 1834 farm labourers there, having combined together to have their wages raised to 10s per week, were sentenced under the unrepealed Emergency Act of 1797 to seven 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 to mark the beginning of the trade union movement include the dedication of six cottages, erected by the Trades Union Congress, at Tolpuddle for aged workers, and the unveiling of a memorial in the village church.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 15
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