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Edwin Russell


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Sept. 2 to 6: South West Herefordshire

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During the harvest month there was a partial suspension of agitation by the delegates of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, and now that the cereal crops are stacked or housed in most parts of the country, especially in the eastern counties, the movement has recommenced with redoubled vigour. .... Having completed a week's tour in Herefordshire, with Mr. E. Pill, under the chairmanship of Mr. Ward of Perriston Towers, Mr. E. Russell (author of the Union 'March Song') proceeds into Hampshire; ....(p. 4)

WESTON CROSS.— At the beginning of the month Mr. Edwin Russell, of Harbury, the author of the Union March Song, and former secretary of the Warwickshire Union, was invited into this county to attend a series of meetings with Mr. E. Pill, delegate from Evesham. Proceeding to Ross on the 2nd, they found there way to Weston Cross, where a meeting had been advertised to take place at half past seven at night. ...

MUCH MARCLE.— A meeting was held here near the Venning, on the 3rd, ...

LINTON.— The deputation held a meeting the next day at this place, near the church. ...

GARWAY.— Under the spreading branches of the broad oak at Garway the trio of 'agitators' took their stand the next night, .... Mr. Ward drove the delegates over from Ross — a distance of 14 miles, ...

MUCH BIRCH.— On the 6th, a walk of twelve miles brought the delegates to this place, and at King's Thorn, six miles from Hereford, they addressed about 500 labourers; ....

WILLEY.— On Tuesday night last, September 10th, a large meeting of labourers was held at Willey in a field kindly lent for the occasion by Mr. B. Williams, of the Plough Inn. ....(p. 7)

WARDINGTON.— [Russell was scheduled to speak at Wardington on the 6th, but was unable to attend.] (p. 8)

Edwin Russell, Reports in the Labourers' Union Chronicle , No. 5 (Sept. 21, 1872), pp. 4-8

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