Note 561 — Chapter VII

This movement was much assisted by the “Red Van” campaigns of the English Land Restoration League, 1891-94, which coupled Land Nationalisation propaganda with the formation of local unions of the labourers in the Southern and Midland Counties of England. In the agricultural depression of 1894-95, when staffs were further reduced and wages again lowered, nearly all these new Unions sank to next to nothing, or entirely dissolved. Most information as to them is to be gained from The Church Reformer for 1891-95; History of the English Agricultural Labourer, by W. Hasbach, 1907; and Ernest Selley’s Village Trade Unions of Two Centuries, 1919.