The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #125258   Message #2775446
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
28-Nov-09 - 06:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ooh, yes please, cut my wages back! ?
Subject: RE: BS: Ooh, yes please, cut my wages back! ?
I need five volunteers, from Dorset, Devon or Cornwall.....

"...In 1832, the year of a Reform Act which extended the vote in England but did not grant universal suffrage, six men from Tolpuddle in Dorset founded the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to protest against the gradual lowering of wages in the 1830s. They refused to work for less than 10 shillings a week, although by this time wages had been reduced to seven shillings a week and were due to be further reduced to six shillings..." (Wiki)