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<v Speaker 1>On this Day and Working Class History the fourth.

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<v Speaker 2>Of January film and.

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<v Speaker 1>On the fourth of January nineteen seventeen, a ten day

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<v Speaker 1>strike of wolf workers started in Guyana. As a consequence

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<v Speaker 1>of World War One, the prices of food and other

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<v Speaker 1>commodities rose while wages remained the same. Against the background

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<v Speaker 1>of labour unrest due to deteriorating living conditions, the wolf

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<v Speaker 1>workers won an increase in wages, a reduction to a

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<v Speaker 1>maximum nine hour working day overtime pay, and they sparked

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<v Speaker 1>a national strike wave and the sources maps and all

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<v Speaker 1>of our anniversaries each day. Check out the on this

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<v Speaker 1>Day section of our stories at at stories Stopworkingclasshistory dot com,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you value our work, support us at Patreon

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<v Speaker 1>dot com slash working class History. Links in the show

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<v Speaker 1>notes the music by a decade a zero