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April 2009

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175 Years of Union Organising

Caledonian Park - Edward Square, Islington, London. April 25, 2009


Frances O'Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary speaks before unveiling the plaque  

 
 
 


 And then pulls the cord to reveal it. The text on this London Borough of Islington Historic Site plaque reads:

Copenhagen Fields
From this site on 21st April 1834
Thousands marched in support of The Tolpuddle Martyrs who had been sentenced to transportation to Australia for forming a trade union

 
Historians for The Right to Work - We Demand a Continuing Supply of History
 
   
 
  
 
The Cuba Solidarity Salsa Band led the march 

      
 
  
     
    

 
   
   

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