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Today in labour history
Today in Labour History
1875 United States of America Textile strikers in Fall River, Massachusetts, demand bread for their malnourished children.
1913 Ireland The SS Hare sails into Dublin with food supplies for the locked-out workers. It flies the colours of the National Transport Workers Federation.[more]
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1919 United Kingdom 500,000 striking railway workers call for workers' solidarity, rail traffic is completely paralyzed. Warships come to anchor at the mouth of the Thames; soldiers, bayonets, roam the streets of London.
1938 Senegal Strike by ‘auxiliary labourers’ (Africans), the vast majority of railway workers, to obtain an end to precarious employment. The movement will be violently repressed.
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