The agricultural labourers' union song.
[England? : s.n.,
1872]
Dated from internal evidence - "On 29 May 1872 at the new Hippodrome, Leamington Spa, a conference was held to create a national union with Arch as president. In the next year the National Agricultural Labourers' Union (NALU) spread through much of midland and eastern England, bringing into its fold many of the local organizations created spontaneously in the early months of 1872" - information from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.
First line reads: To the labourers, the pride of the nation.
In two columns with an illustration beneath the title.
Tune: Red white and blue.
Arch, Joseph, 1826-1919
Agricultural laborers
Ballads, English
Labor unions