Fusillade de Fourmies, nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies

متى

1 مايو 1891

النوع

حدث

إحداثيات

50.02° N, 4.04° E

Description

Fusillade de Fourmies, nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies.

الموضع: coordinates of the event it links, Fourmies massacre.

1891 mass killing of demonstrating workers in France

The Fourmies massacre was an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. Government troops fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers demanding an eight-hour workday. The troops' action against the workers, claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !", killed nine people, including two children, and injured 35 people.

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