On this day, 18 March 1834 the British Tolpuddle martyrs were sentenced to 7 years’ transportation to Australia for attempting to organise a union. They had been trying to fight pay cuts for agricultural workers, but were shipped to Australia in appalling conditions. However the draconian sentences provoked a public outcry, and a mass campaign in their support eventually forced the King to pardon them.
This is a history of the events: https://libcom.org/history/tolpuddle-martyrs-1834 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1377191582465988/?type=3
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