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	Station Information - Tolpuddle Martyrs
		The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of 19th century British labourers who formed a trade union, and were subsequently arrested and sent to Australia.
		There was also a monument erected in their honour in Tolpuddle in 1934, and a sculpture of the martyrs made in 2001 stands in the village in front of the martyrs museum.
		An annual festival is held in Tolpuddle, organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) featuring a parade of banners from many trade unions, a memorial service, speakers such as Tony Benn and musicians such as Billy Bragg, as well as others from all around the world.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tolpuddle_martyrs.html (303 words)

	Tolpuddle Martyrs: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Tolpuddle Martyrs
		The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of 19th century British labourers who formed a labour union, and were subsequently arrested and sent to Australia.
		The Reform Act of 1832 made labour unions legal, and that year six men from Tolpuddle[?] in Dorset founded the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to protest the gradual lowering of wages in the 1830s.
		There was also a monument erected in their honour in Tolpuddle in 1934.
	www.encyclopedian.com /to/Tolpuddle-Martyrs.html (250 words)

	The Parish of Tolpuddle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tolpuddle (also called Tolpuddell and Tolpiddle) is a village and parish on the River Trent or Piddle, it is 7 miles north east from Dorchester.
		These days it is famous for being the birthplace of the Tolpuddle Martyrs when six farm workers who had a wage of nine shillings a week tried to establish a trade union.
		The2040 acres of land are light loam and the chief crops used to be wheat, barley and roots.
	www.dorset-opc.com /Tolpuddle.htm (279 words)

	Tolpuddle Martyrs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of 19th century British labourers who were arrested for and convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers.
		The rules of the society show it was clearly structured as a friendly society and operated as a trade-specific benefit society.
		The story of Tolpuddle has enriched the history of trade unionism, but the significance of the Tolpuddle Martyrs continues to be debated since Sidney and Beatrice Webb wrote the History of Trade Unionism (1890) and continues with such works as Dr Bob James Craft Trade or Mystery (2001).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tolpuddle_Martyrs (461 words)

	Tolpuddle Martyrs
		The severity of the punishment was fuelled by the undercurrent of fear that the English stage a revolution such as in France.
		For 19th century farm workers, life in the picturesque village of Tolpuddle in Dorset was brutal and impoverished.
		None had land of their own and they were at he mercy of wealthy farmers and landowners who paid a pittance - the equivalent of 70c a week.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~lovelace/tolpuddle.htm (1058 words)

	Tolpuddle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tolpuddle is a small village in the southern English county of Dorset, east of Dorchester and west of Poole.
		In the 2001 UK Census Tolpuddle had a population of 340.
		In 2001 the A35 trunk road, which cuts through south Dorset, was moved to bypass the village.
	www.portaljuice.com /tolpuddle.html (85 words)

	The Tolpuddle Martyrs
		Intelligent men like George Loveless, founder of the Tolpuddle union in December 1833, disliked such ritual, but it was virtually the only way to impress illiterate workers whose spirits had been withered into apathy by endless labour and poverty.
		The neighbours were antagonistic, regarding the Tolpuddle six as convicts, indelibly stamped with the taint of a criminal past.
		More importantly, their names sprang first to reactionary minds whenever some trade union activity or hint of unrest occurred in the vicinity.Worse still, the Loveless family were linked to the latest threat to the 'ideal' unchanging society, the Chartist Movement which sought to secure the right to vote for every man, however humble.
	www.britannia.com /history/tolpuddle.html (925 words)

	AllRefer.com - Tolpuddle Martyrs (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tolpuddle Martyrs, name given to six English agricultural laborers who in 1834 were prosecuted for trade union activities and sentenced to transportation.
		With the approval of the Whig government, which feared a renewal of the agricultural agitation of 1831, they were arrested on the trumped-up charge of administering illegal oaths and were sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia.
		Public reaction throughout the country made the six into popular heroes, and the sentence was finally remitted in 1836 after continuous agitation.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Tolpuddl.html (233 words)

	The Tolpuddle Martyrs
		Tolpuddle is a village near Dorchester in Dorset where in 1833 - 4 a great wave of Trade Union activity took place and a lodge of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers was established.
		The labourers at Tolpuddle lived in meagre poverty on just 7 shillings a week and wanted an increase to 10 shillings, but instead the wages were cut to 6 shillings a week.
		It retains the courtroom where the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced to transportation to Australia for their part in the early trade union movement in 1834.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/TolpuddleMartyrs.htm (663 words)

	The Tolpuddle Martyrs
		One of their supporters Lord John Russell in his argument to the Prime minister, Lord Melbourne to pardon the Tolpuddle Martyrs stated "that if being members of a secret society and administering secret oaths was a crime, the reactionary Duke of Cumberland as head of the Orange Lodges was equally deserving of transportation".
		The Tolpuddle Martyrs contributed a proud chapter in the history of Trade Unionism and in 1934 on the centenary of their trial, the The Trades Union Congress (TUC) erected six memorial cottages in the village and founded the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum.
		All that remains of the giant sycamore tree under which the martyrs used to meet is a stump, the rest of the tree having been removed for safety reasons.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /history/Tolpuddle_Martyrs/tolpuddle_martyrs.htm (711 words)

	Tolpuddle: Fight The Anti-Trade Union Laws \| The Socialist 17 July 2004
		In 1830 in Tolpuddle the wage for a labourer was nine shillings a week, this was reduced in succeeding years and in 1834 the employer tried to implement a further cut to just six shillings a week.
		The memory of the Tolpuddle martyrs is still kept alive and events are organised in Tolpuddle each year.
		Perhaps the most important lesson however is of the power of collective struggle by workers, the same kind of organisation that saw the pardon of the Tolpuddle martyrs can push aside today's anti-union laws, as happened during the recent unofficial post dispute or industrial action at Heathrow airport last year.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2004/356/pp9.htm (1107 words)

	Trades Union Congress - About the TUC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum tells of the Martyr's arrest, trial and punishment, key events in the foundation of modern trade unionism.
		Visitors can now discover for themselves how the Tolpuddle Martyrs changed the face of social history and, through their beliefs and actions, paved the way for trade unionism today.
		Tolpuddle Martyrs' Summer Youth Academy, 10th-17th July 2005
	www.tuc.org.uk /tolpuddle (358 words)

	LMHS: Robert Wilson, Pioneer Teacher
		Beneath a sycamore tree in Tolpuddle, near Dorchester, Dorset, England in 1834 six farm workers met to form the first trade union in Britain.
		The advice obviously was ill advised or the Tolpuddle men misunderstood the advice because they were charged under the Mutiny Act of 1797 which forbade the taking of illegal oaths.
		Not too many people remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs although there is a plaque on Fanshawe Park Road at Siloam Cemetery honouring the martyrs.
	www.londonhistory.org /tolpuddle.htm (539 words)

	Tolpuddle, Dorset, England
		Violence on picket lines and bloody battles between striking workers and police would seem to have little in common with a little village green in Dorset, yet beneath a giant sycamore at Tolpuddle six farm laborers banded together in 1831 and made a pact which was the beginning of Trade Unionism in England.
		There was no violence, they were good men and had deep Christian beliefs, but decided to ask for 3 extra shillings a week to 'save their families from starvation and utter degradation'.
		The Tolpuddle Martyrs contributed a proud chapter in the history of Trade Unionism and in 1934 the T.U.C. erected six memorial cottages in the village.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /locations/place/T160.htm (272 words)

	1834 - Trade Union - Tolpuddle Martyrs - Australian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Six English farm labourers who were sentenced (March 1834) to seven years' transportation to a penal colony in Australia for organizing trade-union activities in the Dorsetshire village of Tolpuddle.
		Their leaders, George and James Loveless (or Lovelace), had established a lodge of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers during the great national wave of trade-union activity in 1833–34.
		The Whig government, alarmed at the dimensions of working-class discontent, arrested six Tolpuddle labourers—the Loveless brothers, James Brine, Thomas Stanfield and his son John, and James Hammett—ostensibly for administering unlawful oaths but actually for combining to protect their already meagre wages.
	www.eurekatimes.net /1834-Tolpuddle-Martyes.htm (187 words)

	Tolpuddle Hotels. Hotels in Tolpuddle - Accommodation UK
		All our discount Tolpuddle hotels are specially selected with guaranteed low internet rates for all our England and UK hotels.
		From a cheap Tolpuddle hotel, to 4 and 5 star Tolpuddle hotels with special offers, you are sure to find the best Tolpuddle hotel Accommodation for you.
		Take a Picture tour of Tolpuddle, and please come back after your visit to submit your own.
	www.picturesofengland.com /England/Dorset/Tolpuddle/hotels1/cheapest/ratinglow (999 words)

	Images of Dorset - Photographs of Tolpuddle and Puddletown
		In the rural heart of Dorset, on the small River Piddle, are the two villages of Tolpuddle and Puddletown.
		Tolpuddle is the lesser of the two villages, being little more than a small collection of houses, however its name is etched in English history as a result of events that took place there in the early 19th century.
		Trades Unions had been made legal in 1824 but when, in 1834, labourers from Tolpuddle met to form a 'Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers' (albeit in secret) the general climate of unease throughout the country had reached such depths that the six ringleaders were arrested and sentenced to seven years' transportation.
	www.imagesofdorset.org.uk /Dorset/100/intro.htm (451 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Tolpuddle sycamore did shelter Martyrs
		The giant sycamore on a scrap of green in the Dorset village of Tolpuddle is known worldwide, and reproduced on banners and posters, mugs and T-shirts as the Tolpuddle Tree.
		The Tolpuddle Tree is now officially established as the largest sycamore in Dorset, growing on the smallest village green.
		The green was given to the trust in 1934 by Sir Ernest Debenham, in honour of its role in labour history.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1528887,00.html (502 words)

	Tolpuddle estate agents with property for sale - DT2, Dorset, England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The average selling price for property in Tolpuddle over the past twelve months has been £329,840.
		Thirty-seven have been sold here at an average price of £395,284, which is just above the national average for existing detached houses and is just above the average selling price in Dorset for this property type.
		There was no contact activity made through the Estate Angels service in Tolpuddle during the last twelve months.
	www.estateangels.co.uk /place/52490/Tolpuddle (356 words)

	LondonTown.com \| Tolpuddle Street Guide \| Tolpuddle Street London, N1, England, UK \| London Streets by Street \| London ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tolpuddle Street is located in the borough of Islington
		The nearest underground station to Tolpuddle Street is 'Angel ' which is about 6 minutes to the South East.
		Comfortable, tasteful and wonderfully affordable — this hotel is ideally located in the heart of the infamously chic Islington.
	tourist.londontown.com /LondonStreets/tolpuddle_street_41e.html (654 words)

	Tolpuddle Martyrs
		BA to sponsor museum for Tolpuddle Martyrs (The Sunday Telegraph)
		The roots of solidarity; The seeds of trade unionism were planted when six local labourers held secret meetings under its sheltering boughs in 1834.
		Now experts have discovered that the Tolpuddle sycamore has an even richer history than they thought.
	www.infoplease.com /ce5/CE052126.html (245 words)

	New Tolpuddle Anarchist
		Lord Melbourne, after whom my city was named, was the British Prime Minister at the time the Tolpuddle Martyrs (pioneers of unionism)were transported to Australia.
		Another reason is that "New Tolpuddle" suits the feel of the city better anyway.
		While we are on the subject of pioneers of liberty and so forth this is a good place to link to a site about the Levellers, seventeenth century english revolutionaries who were the first people to be called Anarchists (according to Raymond Williams' Keywords).
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/8908 (1517 words)

	Honouring the Tolpuddle Martyrs \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Organised by the South West TUC, this is the annual celebration of the men who fought to set up a trade union, in their a tiny Dorset village in 1830.
		The Tolpuddle martyrs were deported to Australia for organising against the driving down of the wages of agricultural labourers in their area, wages which were already at starvation level.
		Tolpuddle festival is a good event which young socialists and new trade unionists would really enjoy and which, with the help of organisations like No Sweat, can be very educational at the same time.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/2376 (688 words)

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		The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and how they dared to not only ask for more pay, but also set up a union, is one that makes for very interesting reading.
		Each year during July, the story of the Tolpuddle martyrs is commemorated by holding a day of festivities and celebration.
		A number of members of this branch attended Tolpuddle last year.
	freespace.virgin.net /unison.cbh/tolpuddle2000.htm (108 words)

	Tolpuddle Martyrs
		The pretty little village of Tolpuddle, some six miles east of Dorchester, is home to the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum.
		This is the place (if you didn't see the film you ought to have been taught at school about these famous farm labourers and people's heroes) where the six Martyrs were arrested in 1834 for trade union activity and sentenced to transportation, under the most horrific conditions, to Australia.
		A great popular struggle was organised by the working class against this heinous bourgeois crime of conspiracy against the people, to demand the freedom of the six and their return to England.
	www.dorsetriviera.co.uk /onlocation/tolpuddle.asp (299 words)

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		The cottage oozes character and is set in the historic village if Tolpuddle famous because of the Tolpuddle Martyrs said to be the founders of Trade Unionism.
		It is within easy reach of the coast at Lulworth, Osmington or Weymouth or indeed of the County Town of Dorchester which has a good selection of shops, supermarkets and museums.
	www.dhcottages.co.uk /river%20view.htm (309 words)

	BBC - Dorset - Features - Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A record 10,000 people attended this year's Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival which commemorates the six farm labourers who were transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
		Despite falling trade union membership and labour history not being the most fashionable of subjects, for thousands of trade unionists from around the world, the Tolpuddle festival is an essential date in the diary.
		If you're interested in finding out more about the martyrs then the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum in the village is open everyday, excluding Monday's and entry is free.
	www3.thny.bbc.co.uk /go/england/home/int/verc.1207/promo6/lnk/-/dorset/content/articles/2005/07/08/tolpuddle_festival_feature.shtml (579 words)

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