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#OtD 24 Sep 1945 in NYC up to 1.5 million workers got an impromptu day off when elevator workers in over 2000 city high-rise buildings, including the Empire State building, went on strike against pay cuts stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9699...
#OtD 24 Sep 1994 residents of Dublin, Ireland who had been opposing new council water charges formed an all-city federation of groups. A widespread campaign of non-payment eventually defeated the charges stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9702...
Brighton people, any assistance much appreciated! We are trying to find the location of the Freethought Hall in Brighton, UK, in 1889. Any advice would be much appreciated!
#OtD 23 Sep 1893 feminist and Spanish Civil War fighter Libertad Rodenas was born in Valencia. She was involved in the @CNTsindicato textile workers' union, workers' armed defence groups, and Mujeres Libres (Free Women). She later moved to Mexico stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9609...
#OtD 23 Sep 1969 a wildcat strike of refuse workers began in London. In a matter of weeks, which saw piles of rubbish fill London's streets, a settlement was reached on 9 October. Workers got a wage increase of £2 10s. per week (about a 15% raise) stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...
#OtD 23 Sep 1911 the Organising Council of the anarchist Mexican Liberal Party issued a manifesto declaring war against authority, capital, and the Church. It was later broadcast and published in their paper Regeneración stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9610...
#OtD 23 Sep 1945 the Saigon Commune came into being when workers rose up, independently of the Vietminh, after French troops supported by Gurkhas under British command entered the city. More info, sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7885...
#OtD 23 Sep 1969 after Pirelli imported tyres from Greece, striking workers in Milan burned piles of tyres. Management then briefly locked the workers out. They then tried to sack a militant, but workers struck and carried him back into the factory stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9612...
London folks! For our map we are trying to identify the location of what used to be number 24, Corporation Buildings in Clerkenwell. We found this map of the old buildings so it's clear what block it was on, however, we can't tell which one was number 24. Can anyone help us identify the correct one?
#OtD 23 Sep 1942 Fyodor Burriy, a Russian in a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Jersey, escaped. He was looked after by Louisa Gould (pic), but informed on. While Burriy was able to escape again, Gould was arrested and gassed at Ravensbrück stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7883...
#OtD 23 Sep 2014 Spanish resistance activist Antonia Fontanillas died aged 97. After Franco's victory in the civil war, Antonia went underground to support the anarchist resistance movement, publishing illegal newspapers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9613...
#OtD 23 Sep 2017 a strike of video game voice actors at 11 US companies ended in partial victory after a deal was reached after 340 days. It was the longest strike in the history of their union, @sagaftra stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9614...
#OtD 23 Sep 1923 two activists in the anarchist @CNTsindicato union were executed by garrotte in Terrassa, Spain by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship. They were convicted of robbing a bank to finance activities for their union which had been banned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9611...
#OtD 22 Sep 1918 a mass mutiny and uprising of Bulgarian troops during WWI began. Soldiers deserting at Dobro Pole formed their own army, electing officers and turned their weapons on their leaders stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9522...
#OtD 22 Sep 1934 the United Textile Workers of America ordered its striking members back to work despite bosses conceding nothing. Over 420,000 had been out since July against cuts in hours. 13 were killed in the South alone. More in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#OtD 22 Sep 1960 bailiffs and 800 police attacked two blocks of council flats in London, UK to evict two communists who had been withholding payment of a rent increase for months. Other tenants rushed to fight the police and 300 workers went on strike stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9525...
#OtD 22 Sep 1953 300 workers at the British government atomic research plant in Salwick voted to go on strike the next day in defence of their tea breaks. If you know what happened next please message us! We've made tea break struggles merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526...
#OtD 22 Sep 1958 workers at the flax mill in Sandy Bay, in the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, went on strike. The strike was organised by the Saint Helena General Workers Union, which had been formed July 23 that year stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7871...
#OtD 22 Sep 1912 the syndicalist union the Casa del Obrero Mundial (House of the World Worker) was formed in Mexico during the turbulent events of the revolution and despite repression by the Madero government stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9521...
#OtD 21 Sep 1919 Teresa Rebull, revolutionary folk singer, was born in Barcelona. Involved in the Spanish revolution until she was jailed by the NKVD (Russian secret police). She managed to escape and went to France, joining the French resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9438...
#OtD 21 Sep 1945 200,000 coal miners in the US went on strike in support of supervisory employees' demand for collective bargaining; part of a wave of strikes in the wake of WWII. Learn more in this great book which tells the story of those strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#OtD 21 Sep 1976 Chilean socialist refugee Orlando Letelier and think tank worker Ronni Moffitt were murdered in Washington, DC by a car bomb planted by US and UK-backed dictator General Pinochet's secret police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9441...
#OtD 21 Sep 1921 Lev Chernyi, Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet, was executed without hearing or trial by the Bolshevik secret police after strongly denouncing the new Bolshevik government stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9439...
#OtD 21 Sep 1908 William White, a Black man, was hospitalised and maybe killed by white patrons in Hanover, PA, as part of a carnival game, "hit the c**n". Instead of the light balls the patrons used their own heavy ones to repeatedly strike White stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9437...
#OtD 20 Sep 1878 American author Upton Sinclair was born. He often wrote about the everyday lives and struggles of working class people and his investigative exposés written as fiction had many concrete results in terms of improving conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9328...
