Author: TUC
Title: The Book of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle, 1834-1934
Description: London, The Trades Union Congree General Council. 1934, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Low, Dyson, Horrabin, Easton. Book, Binding dampstained and bit warped, contents OK; includes bookmark advertising this book and Dorsetshire Labourers' Centenary Commemorations, also a bit damp damaged but intact and readable. Contributions by G. Bernard Shaw, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, G. D. H. Cole, Walter M. Citrine, Sir Stafford Cripps, H. J. Laski, J. R. Clynes, Arthur Henderson, H. V. Morton, "Tomfool", H. L. Beales. "The story of the Dorsetshire labourers who were convicted and sentenced to seven years transportation for forming a trade union." Cartoons by Low and Will Dyson, sketch maps & portraits by Frank Horrabin, coloured plates & drawings by W. E. Easton. Includes contemporary reports & correspondence, the statutes, indictment, initiation ceremony & oath. Green cloth, gilt decoration. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Low, Dyson, Horrabin, Eastonlabour Movement, Trade Union, History, Dorset Ephemera Bookmark Politics, Economics, Social Studies History


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