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15 January 1919: Peru 8-hour day

Jan 15, 202653 sec
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Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team.

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Transcript

Speaker 1

On this Day and Working Class History the fifteenth of January and on the fifteenth of January nineteen nineteen, the government in Peru was forced to cave into demands of a general strike which had broken out for a maximum eight hour working day. Businesses had been paralyzed, and widespread street clashes had been taking place for three days. The sources maps and all of our anniversaries each day. Check out the on this Day section of our stories at at stories stop Workingclasshistory.

Speaker 2

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Speaker 3

Links in the show notes. The music by A Deco. See you tomorrow.

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