The Farm Labourer; the History of a Modern Problem
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AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' UNIONS i6i Government for the financial assistance and reception of his members.
All the difficulties inherent in Agricultural Unions became apparent in the great struggle of 1874. A small Suffolk branch asked, in " moderate and conciliatory language," for a rise in wages of is} The farmers replied by locking them out at the end of February. By the close of March the lock-out had spread into the neighbouring counties and into Hampshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, ...and 2,000 men were out. The number rose to over 8,000 by the beginning of May, and eventually the total number reached 10,000.^ Some were locked out because they had asked for a rise in wages, but others, and " by far the greatest number," merely because they were Union men.^ The expenditure in relief was inevitably immense ; ^^21,365 was paid for strikes by the National Union alone in 1874 — 5. The public supported liberally.
Contributions came in from gentry and clergy,* and labourers throughout the country collected their pence at village meetings.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' UNIONS i6i Government for the financial assistance and reception of his members.
All the difficulties inherent in Agricultural Unions became apparent in the great struggle of 1874. A small Suffolk branch asked, in " moderate and conciliatory language," for a rise in wages of is} The farmers replied by locking them out at the end of February. By the close of March the lock-out had spread into the neighbouring counties and into Hampshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, ...and 2,000 men were out. The number rose to over 8,000 by the beginning of May, and eventually the total number reached 10,000.^ Some were locked out because they had asked for a rise in wages, but others, and " by far the greatest number," merely because they were Union men.^ The expenditure in relief was inevitably immense ; ^^21,365 was paid for strikes by the National Union alone in 1874 — 5. The public supported liberally.
Contributions came in from gentry and clergy,* and labourers throughout the country collected their pence at village meetings.
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