On this day, 6 November 1913, striking Indian mine workers in South Africa demonstrated against a new tax on former indentured labourers, with the background of a mass direct action campaign against racist pass laws. Around 2000 miners marched, as did some women and children as well as Mohandas Gandhi who was arrested at the demonstration. Gandhi did not initially support the movement against the tax as he feared it would alienate the white population however he was swept up by the working class discontent. The tax was soon scrapped. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1256308961220918/?type=3
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