"What name was given to 6 labourers in Dorset, England, who formed a ""Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers"" and in 1834 were sentenced to 7 years transportation for ""administering unlawful oaths""?"
Dorset birthplace of the modern trade union movement when, in 1834, six farm labourers formed a union to protest against falling wages. The labourers, who are now known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, were subsequently arrested for administering "unlawful oaths" and sentenced to transportation but they were pardoned following massive protests by the working classes. The Dorsetshire Regiment were the first British unit to face a gas attack during the First World War (1914–1918) and they sustained particularly heavy losses at the Battle of the Somme. In total some 4,500 Dorset servicemen died in the war and of the county's towns and
Agricultural Labourers Union of Southwestern Slovakia Agricultural Labourers Union of Southwestern Slovakia The Agricultural Labourers Union of Southwestern Slovakia was a trade union of Hungarian agricultural labourers in Slovakia. It was affiliated to the Hungarian-German trade union council "Union". Gyula Nagy, an important figure in the leftwing in Slovakia at the time, was the secretary of the Agricultural Labourers Union (as well as being the secretary of "Union" and a parliamentarian of the Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party). The Agricultural Labourers Union held a congress on April 4, 1920, in Bratislava. At the congress Gyula Nagy argued that reaching collective wage agreements and land reform were more