Tolpuffle Martyrs
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- Created on: 02-04-17 15:10
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- Tolpuddle Martyrs
- 1834- Dorset farmers from Tolpuddle created a trade union.
- They wanted to stop wages going down.
- Non-violent but rich farmers thought they might lose control over their workers - government agreed.
- Government used the law to control them.
- 1797- Law to stop secret oaths being sworn in the navy was used to arrest the farmers.
- Because farmers did this about their meetings.
- They were transported to Australia for 7 years
- Transportation was an alternative punishment to hanging.
- Eventually released in 1836.
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