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  1. Laws passed in Britain 1799 and 1800 making
  2. trade unionism illegal, introduced after the
  3. French Revolution for fear that the unions
  4. would become centres of political agitation.
  5. The unions continued to exist, but claimed to
  6. be friendly societies or went underground,
  7. until the acts were repealed 1824, largely
  8. owing to the radical Francis Place.
  9.