@Nestlé
Just a reminder it used to be standard that public locations would have drinking fountains for anyone to use
I have rarely seen any public drinking fountains in here Germany, AFAIK they were never a thing. They might become more common now that summer heatwaves are getting more common and more intense, but I wouldn’t bet any money on that, since a lot of public infrastructure that was very useful to the general public has been dismantled and removed in the past 20 years.
On this day, 29 January 1935, workers at the sugar factory in St Kitts joined the strike of cane cutters which began the previous day demanding a pay increase. The workers assembled in the yard at Buckley’s plantation, but when they failed to disperse the manager fired his gun into the crowd injuring several workers. British armed police then arrived, but workers still refused to disperse, demanding that the manager be arrested. However instead police opened fire on the workers, killing three and injuring eight. The following day a British warship arrived, and marines disembarked to suppress the strike. 39 strikers were arrested and six jailed for two to five years.
More info in this account of struggles in the British Caribbean over that time period: https://libcom.org/library/labour-rebellions-1930s-british-caribbean-region-colonies-richard-hart
Pictured: the clashes at Buckley’s plantation https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1909506142567860/?type=3
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