On their term working Class History. The twentieth of January, and on the twentieth of January eighteen eighty eight, domestic workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, including maids, nannies, ironers, and laundry workers, went out on strike along with coachmen and porters. Strikers then toured the city calling on hotel, restaurant and
sweetshop workers to join the strike, which they did. In particular, the workers were protesting against the mayor, Antonio Crespo, introducing the so called Concharbo notebook, a detailed record taken by employers of workers conduct. The mayor set in police against the strikers and prohibited public assemblies. So instead, strikers gathered in Lanus in Mar del Plata, even though employers there didn't use Conchabo notebooks. Domestic workers also launched a solidarity strike.
In desperation, wealthy families wrote let us to newspapers calling for action. A wealthy character in a play about the dispute, written by Patricia Suarez, complained that quote the houses are not cleaned, the ladies are not attended to, and you can't even go for a coffee end quote, and others demanded that the mayor quote put an end to that madness of the Contrabo notebook end quote. Soon the strike was victorious, the Conchrabo notebook was scrapped, and the mayor resigned.
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