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Labourers' Lockout Sparks Widespread Support Across Counties
A Norfolk Suffolk and Essex upheaval over farm labour pay sees farmers locking out union men while MPs like Arch and Hall urge arbitration and solidarity. Meetings in Norwich Ipswich Bury St Edmunds and Woolwich raise funds and call for fair wages amid political pressure from Lords and local landlords.
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Bauw
Suffolk
Kerridge
Byaona
Josefh Arch
England
Dixon
Birmingham
Liberal Association
Hatt
Bury
Federal
National
Lloyd Jones
Bury St. Edmunds
Marquis of Bristol
Ipswich
Weat
Suffolk Farmers’ Defence Association
Farmers’ Defence Association
Norfolk
Norwich
Lord Waveney
Earl of Stra‘gfoke
Woolwich
Ball
The
National Union
Kent
Trades Unions
Council of the Amalgamated Engineers
Arch
John Wilkinson
Salisbury Cathedral
Wilts
Agricultural Labourers’ Union
Countess de Noailles
Edward Jenkins
W. H. Hall
General Hall
Six Mile Bottom
Newmarket
Daily News
Hall
Cambridge
E. Kerrison
Eye
Lincolnshire League
Sheffield
Nottingham
Mundells
M.P
Joseph Arch