On This Day and Working Class History the ninth of January film and on the ninth of January nineteen seventy three, in Durban, South Africa, workers at the Coronation Brick and Tile factory came out on strike. By the end of March, close to one hundred thousand, mainly Black African workers, and approximately half the entire Black African workforce in Durban had
come out on strike. By the end of February, the brick workers had won a doubling of their wages and the strike represented at turning point in South African struggles to build multi racial, integrated trade unions and the sources
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