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Farm Labourers Down Hoes

1923 , Aylsham (Norfolk)

Cat no. 701

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A newsreel depicting the Norfolk farm labourers' strike of 1923.

Opening intertitles describe the tragedy of a strike where labourers are not able to live on the wages farmers are able to pay them. Machinery stands idle whilst a farmer attempts to carry out the work with a single horse. A representative from the Agricultural Workers' Union addresses the labourers in the market square at Aylsham; standing by is George Edwards, a Norfolk farm worker who later became an MP. Lord Kimberley, a sympathetic Labour Peer, appears beside a cattle byre. Finally, a turning windmill represents blacklegs at work.

Featured Buildings

St. Michael's Church, Aylsham

Featured Events

Farm Labourers' Strike, 1923

Keywords

Agriculture, Strikes, Industrial relations; Politics, Machinery, Traction engines, Threshers, Windmills, Labourers

  • Camera : John Hutchins (Jack/Bunny)

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Farm Labourers Down Hoes

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