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General strike by Irish workers I. Against recruitment for the World War

106
years ago

23 April 1918,

The Irish labour movement carried out a general strike I. I wanted to send them to the World War against forced recruitment. In the midst of war, Britain wanted to establish forced recruitment in Ireland.

He had to go back because of the resistance of the workers and the independentists.

Source:

Adrian Pimley, The Working-class Movement and the Irish Revolution, 1896-1923

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