Timeline of strikes in 1947
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In 1947, a number of labour strikes, labour disputes, and other industrial actions occurred.
Background
[edit]A labour strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. This can include wildcat strikes, which are done without union authorisation, and slowdown strikes, where workers reduce their productivity while still carrying out minimal working duties. It is usually a response to employee grievances, such as low pay or poor working conditions. Strikes can also occur to demonstrate solidarity with workers in other workplaces or pressure governments to change policies.
Timeline
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Continuing strikes from 1946
[edit]January
[edit]- 1947 Mombasa general strike, general strike in Mombasa, Kenya Colony, calling for respect and pay equality for African workers.[1]
- 1947 Singapore municipal strike[2][3]
February
[edit]- February 1 General Strike, in Japan.
March
[edit]- Biratnagar Jute Mill Strike
- 1947 Varnsdorf strike, strike by workers in Varnsdorf, Czechia, against the return of a factory to the ownership of a Jewish industralist who had seen the factory confiscated by the Nazi occupation.[4]
April
[edit]- Chocolate bar strike, protests by children in Canada over an increase in price of chocolate bars.
- 1947 Ruhr miners' strike, strike by miners in the Ruhr, West Germany.[5][6][7]
- 1947 strikes in France
- 1947 Telephone strike, in the United States.
May
[edit]- 1947 Nanking student strikes, series of strikes by university students in Nanjing, Republic of China.[8][9][10]
- 1947 Sri Lankan general strike, part of the Sri Lankan independence movement.[11]
June
[edit]July
[edit]- 1947 Dadaya school strike, strike by students at the Dadaya mission school in Southern Rhodesia.[12]
- 1947 Huelga de Brazos Caídos, es, calling for electoral reform in Costa Rica.[13]
- 1947 Sudan rail strike, by rail workers in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan demanding that the Workers' Affairs Association be recognised as their union.[14][15]
August
[edit]- 1947 Mount Selinda High School strike, strike by students at the Mount Selinda High School in Southern Rhodesia, against the practice of students being forced to work for the mission during school breaks.[12]
- Mysore Chalo, satyagraha including strikes, calling for democracy in Mysore State.[16]
- 1947 Sherritt-Gordon Mine strike, strike by miners at the Sherritt-Gordon Mine in Manitoba, Canada.[17]
- Anti-Jewish strike by slaughterhouse workers in Liverpool as part of The Sergeants affair.[18]
September
[edit]- 1947 Canadian meatpackers strike[19][20]
- 1947 Dublin transit strike[21][22]
- 1947 Łódź textile strike, strike by textile workers in Łódź, Polish People's Republic.[23][24]
October
[edit]- 1947–48 French West African rail strike, by railway workers in French West Africa.[25]
- 1947 Southern Sudan strike[26]
November
[edit]- 1947–49 Chicago printers' strike[27][28]
- 1947 Scranton dairy strike, strike by milkmen in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States.[29][30]
December
[edit]- 1947 Jerusalem riots
- 1947 Rome general strike[31][32]
- 1947 Tucumán strike, strike in Tucumán Province, Argentina.[33][34]
Changes in legislation
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kluver, Emily (3 March 2014). "15,000 workers strike, win wage increases in Mombasa, Kenya Colony January 1947". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19470122-1.2.2
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19470206-1.2.16
- ^ "Czech Workers Strike Against Return to Jew of Property Confiscated by Razis". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 9 March 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19470402.2.57
- ^ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19470405.2.86.1
- ^ Judd, Henry (14 April 1947). "Ruhr Strikes See German Labor Revival". Labor Action. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Durdin, Tillman (15 May 1947). "CHINESE STUDENTS BLOCK A RAILWAY; Win Demands in a Strike After Taking Freight Train Out on All-Night Expedition". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Durdin, Tillman (23 August 1947). "STUDENT OUSTINGS CONTINUE IN CHINA; American-Supported Nanking University Ordered to Drop 37 Alleged Leftists". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "Nanking Students Strike". The New York Times. 29 November 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/morningtribune19470609-1.2.88
- ^ a b https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057079208708316
- ^ Hillerbrand, Dylan (26 February 2012). "Costa Rican merchants and bankers strike for electoral reform (Huelga de brazos caidos), 1947". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/42677955
- ^ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2013.790226
- ^ Murphy, Molly (19 September 2015). "Mysore population wins democratic rule in newly independent India, 1947". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Sokalski, Alexander (2003). "Manitoba History: The Sheritt-Gordon Mine Strike of 1947". Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "Liverpool Jews Enter Third Meatless Week As Slaughterers Refuse to End Protest Strike". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 17 August 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19471021.2.65
- ^ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2725371
- ^ "Transit Strike Hits Dublin". The New York Times. 5 September 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "Irish Transit Strike Ends". The New York Times. 3 November 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Gruson, Sydney (25 September 1947). "40,000 POLES STRIKE ON SPEED-UP ORDER; Government Edict Protested by Lodz Textile Workers -- All but 5,000 Return". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/4286078
- ^ Muñoz, Aurora (12 November 2009). "French West African railway workers strike for greater benefits, 1947-1948". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/43660377
- ^ "Chicago Printers Go on Strike After Preparing Early Editions; Chicago Printers Go on Strike After Preparing Early Editions". The New York Times. 25 November 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/141533594
- ^ Nissley, Erin (20 January 2018). "Local History: Dairy strike in 1947 caused misery in Scranton". The Scranton Times-Tribune. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "Scranton Dairy Strike Ended". The New York Times. 25 November 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Cortesi, Arnaldo (12 December 1947). "ROME UNIONS VOTE TO CONTINUE STRIKE, ISSUE NEW THREAT". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ Cortesi, Arnaldo (13 December 1947). "ROME STRIKE ENDS WITH COMPROMISE ON LABOR DEMANDS". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "TUCUMAN STRIKE ENDED; Pay Rise Settles General Walk- Out in Northern Argentina". The New York Times. 25 December 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
- ^ "Strike Ties Up Argentine City". The New York Times. 21 December 1947. Retrieved 20 October 2024.