Speaker 1: On this term working class history the seventh of January
Speaker 1: and on the seventh of January nineteen thirteen, a strike
Speaker 1: for the eight hour day began in Peru, two days
Speaker 1: after workers had presented their demands agreed by workers assemblies
Speaker 1: to employers. When their demands were not met, workers organized
Speaker 1: in the Peruvian Regional Workers Federation Union walked out in Kalau.
Speaker 1: There was a total stoppage of industry as dockers, gas workers,
Speaker 1: mill workers, typographers, bakers, bricklayers, textile workers and others all
Speaker 1: came out on strike and took to the streets waving
Speaker 1: red and black flags. Workers in Lima also joined the strike.
Speaker 1: The government sent in troops to repress the workers, but
Speaker 1: the strike continued. On the tenth of January, the Darsana
Speaker 1: doc and Steamship company in Kalal caved in and implemented
Speaker 1: a maximum eight hour working day. Organizing and further strikes
Speaker 1: for a universal.
Speaker 2: Eight hour day continued, and the sources maps and all
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Speaker 1: The music by De card See you Tomorrow,