Speaker 1: On this Day and Working Class History the fourth.
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Speaker 1: On the fourth of January nineteen seventeen, a ten day
Speaker 1: strike of wolf workers started in Guyana. As a consequence
Speaker 1: of World War One, the prices of food and other
Speaker 1: commodities rose while wages remained the same. Against the background
Speaker 1: of labour unrest due to deteriorating living conditions, the wolf
Speaker 1: workers won an increase in wages, a reduction to a
Speaker 1: maximum nine hour working day overtime pay, and they sparked
Speaker 1: a national strike wave and the sources maps and all
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