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Trade unions: everything you wanted to know

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Do the Tolpuddle Martyrs Deserve Any Credit?

The tolpadle martyrs came together inead of 18 33 a et their interest to stop hay cuts. At that time there was a big up surgeing trade unionism. There is some view that actually they were picked on almost at random within this sor of grand national, consolidated trade unions as an example. So the full force of the law came down on them, and they suffered it and went off to australia. But certainly that was a successful campaigno save them from this sort of terrific transportation and imprisonment australia indeed.

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