What the records say
- When
- 1917
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 52.73° N, 122.45° W
- Description
- general strike
Placed at the town its title names, Australian.
1917 Australian general strike
Usually referred to as the "New South Wales General Strike", but referred to by contemporaries as "the Great Strike", it was in fact neither general nor confined to NSW. The strike was however a mass strike, involving around 100,000 workers, mostly in NSW and Victoria.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The General Strike of 1917 begins, a massive industrial action involving over 100,000 workers in support of railway workers in Sydney”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An dem von New South Wales ausgehenden Australischen Generalstreik von 1917 beteiligen sich zeitweise mehr als 100.000 Arbeiter”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page