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Monday, July 18, 2005

UK union leaders flock to Tolpuddle
Up to 10,000 people gathered in a Dorset village to celebrate the forerunner of the modern trade union movement, organisers said. In 1834 six farm workers set up a "friendly society" in the village of Tolpuddle in a protest over poor pay.

 



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