On this day, 10 April 1911, a general strike erupted in Lima, Peru bringing business and transport to a standstill. The stoppage broke out in support of a walkout of 500 workers at an American-owned cotton mill the previous month who were demanding better pay, the abolition of the night shift and a reduction of the working day from 13 to 10 hours. Faced with a general strike, the president intervened and forced the mill to agree to the workers’ demands.
More info in this account of anarcho-syndicalism in Peru: https://libcom.org/library/anarcho-syndicalism-peru-1905-1930-steven-hirsch https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1397549437096869/?type=3
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