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This month in labour history

6-07-1919 In Palermo, 2,000 shipyard workers on strike for a rise in wages block trams and factories. 5,000 join them in demanding a 50% reduction in prices and castigating the bosses who were “starving the people”. [more]

6-07-1919 In Arrezzo, the town hall is occupied by demonstrators against the high cost of living. Trucks are requisitioned to take the goods confiscated from traders, to the Labour Exchange, for distribution to workers' families. [more]

7-07-1919 Steelworkers and dockers strike against the high cost of living in Naples. Clashes with police leave 20 injured. Soldiers kill 5 workers in Imola, 4 in Taranto, 8 in Lucera and 2 in Florence. [more]

11-07-1919 At La Spezia workers, without waiting for directives from their unions, leave work. A crowd of 10,000 workers gathers in front of the Town Hall. Soldiers open fire, killing 2 workers and injuring 25. [more]

17-07-1921 Maritime, coal and cement workers in Civitavecchia set up a local battalion of the militant anti-fascist group the Arditi del Popolo. Maritime and keep fascists at bay for several months. [more]

20-07-1919 National general strike against the intervention of the armies of the imperialist countries to crush Soviet Russia and Hungary. [more]