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On this day, 10 April 1932, thousands of mostly women mill workers joined a strike against the reduction in rations in Teikovo, in the Soviet Union. The workers complained that the 30-50% reduction in rations would leave them starving, while managers, Communist Party and secret police officials received plenty of food.
Women called out their colleagues, sabotaged machines and denounced those who refused to walk out as “traitors”. They gathered around the town, and converged on the town square, making speeches, and dragging a CP member off the rostrum after he condemned the strike. The following morning, only 130 workers went into work.
The secret police made numerous arrests, and by April 17 the strike had been broken. While no women were prosecuted, several men who had been active in the strike were exiled or sent to labour camps with three-year sentences.
This is an account of the dispute: https://libcom.org/history/strikes-against-stalin-1930s-russia-jeffrey-rossman https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1396765890508557/?type=3
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WTF tumblr?! Isn’t life shitty enough for us? Give us back the ability to open permalinks, edit, and reblog in new tabs with chrome, too!
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Well now I DEFINITELY need to learn Icelandic.
What.
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On this day, 8 March 1926, the predominantly female members of the Fur & Leather Workers Union in New York City went on strike, and were beaten by police. However they were undeterred and remained out until they won a 10% pay increase and a five-day working week. https://ift.tt/2Cap8OD
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