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22,000 workers from the plant 'La Constancia' in Barcelona, mostly women and children, started a strike against low wages and long hours

111
years ago

30 July 1913,

22,000 workers at the La Constancia plant in Barcelona, mostly women and children, started a strike against low wages and long hours. It was one of the great mobilizations of the early twentieth century in Catalonia. The strike extended to the workplaces in the area, until 50,000 strikes began to stop. It ended on 15 September with the victory of the workers. The Government set a maximum day of 60 hours per week.

On this day
1522Five Cambrian Navarros were sentenced by the Castilian men to torture
1843Victor Hugo wrote that San Sebastian was neither Spain nor France
1937San Sebastian Civil Government fined businessman Joaquim Rivera for speaking “Catalan dialect”
2006Murray Bookchin died, historian, university professor, researcher and entrepreneur from the United States

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1913-01-07
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1913-02-01
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1913-03-09
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1913-06-04
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1913-06-08
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Rosa Luxembourg said at a conference that parliamentarianism was not enough to protect workers
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1913-09-23
In Argentina, sexual exploitation and trade in human beings were prohibited.
1913-10-10
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson opened the Panama Canal detonating the latest dynamite load

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