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On This Day in Working Class History

On This Day in Working Class History

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 Daily briefings of On This Day people's history anniversaries every day of the year. From the Working Class History team.
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  • 24 April 1980: Sabuk miners win strike

    24 April 1980: Sabuk miners win strike
    Apr 24 2026
    On this day, 24 April 1980, coalminers in Sabuk, South Korea, won all 11 of their demands from employers and authorities after a four-day insurrection. They had been demanding a 40% pay increase, and an amnesty for all protesters after miners, housewives and other local workers had risen up and expelled a column of armed police from the city. However the following month they were betrayed as the US-backed dictatorship tore up the amnesty and arrested and tortured 70 people, later jailing 30.
    More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9623/sabuk-coal-strike-wins

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  • 23 April 1938: Jamaicans demand minimum wage

    23 April 1938: Jamaicans demand minimum wage
    Apr 23 2026
    On this day, 23 April 1938, Robert Rumble's Poor Man's Improvement and Land Settlement Association sent a petition to the governor in Jamaica demanding a minimum wage for agricultural workers and peasants, and an end to exploitation by landlords: "We are the Sons of Slaves," they wrote, "who have been paying rent to the Landlords for fully many decades. [...] We want a Minimum Wage Law. We want freedom in this the hundredth year of our Emancipation. We are still economic slaves, burdened in paying rent to Landlords who are sucking out our vitalities." Rent strikes and land occupations began, and tenants seized lands and erected fences around them. Unrest on the island escalated until it was suppressed by British troops in June.
    More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9533/rural-jamaicans-demand-minimum-wage

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  • 22 April 1944: Thompsons cafeteria sit-in

    22 April 1944: Thompsons cafeteria sit-in
    Apr 22 2026
    On this day, 22 April 1944, 200 young Black people, mostly students at Howard University, held a sit-in demonstration at Thompson's, a segregated restaurant in Washington DC – where Jim Crow laws were not in effect but segregation by custom existed. After effectively slashing the number of paying customers, the restaurant was ordered by its headquarters to begin serving Black customers.
    The University, in fear of losing federal grants, subsequently directed its students to cease direct action and Thompson's promptly restored segregation.
    One of the key organisers of the action was Pauli Murray, pictured, a young student and activist, who identified as part male and part female, and whose romantic relationships were with women.
    More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9444/thompson's-cafeteria-sit-in

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