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Today in labour history
Today in Labour History
1918 South Africa African workers rallied in Johannesburg to protest the jailing of all 152 striking municipal workers. who had gone on strike for a shilling a day increase in pay. Radicals attempted to organise a general strike which was called off.
1941 France End of the miners' strike in the Nord / Pas-de-Calais region, one of the first acts of collective resistance to the Nazi occupation.
1963 United States of America Congress adopts a law on equal pay for men and women.
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