What the records say
- When
- 1908
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 48.73° N, 2.45° E
- Description
- 1908 sand quarry worker strike near Paris
Placed at the town its title names, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.
Draveil-Villeneuve-Saint-Georges strike
1908 sand quarry worker strike near Paris
The Draveil-Villeneuve-Saint-Georges strike was a strike action of sand quarry workers in Draveil, Vigneux, and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges in 1908 that ended with two workers dead and repression of the French CGT labor union.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “grève du bâtiment”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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