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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we became in...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both...

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Jan 13, 2012

Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

The story of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa epitomizes the history of South Africa itself during the last th...

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Jan 13, 2012

Conclusion

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Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Few people, including most English-speaking South Africans, know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their histo...

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Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

In the Cape and Natal, the overwhelming majority of garment workers have always been Coloured, Indian and Malay, while i...

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Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Nationalist Government attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing indust...

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Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions

In Mein Kampf, Hitler propounded at length the need for capturing or disrupting all mass organisations in the interest o...

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Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands

The Poor White problem spread to the factories and the slums of Johannesburg and was soon felt in the offices of the uni...

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Chapter 14. Rebuilding the Union-Constitution

When I returned to South Africa in March 1933, I found the stillness of the grave in the union office. The mass of worke...

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Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932

Lengthy negotiations took place between the union and the employers' association before the agreement expired in the mid...

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Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

All South African labour laws have objectionable features which cause bitter resentment among the workers, and nearly al...

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Chapter 27. The Police State in Action

The triumphs of the anti-communist crusaders have been made possible only by the tacit support, cowardice and confusion ...

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Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money

In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on the Rand,...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

GUNS AND GALLOWS In outward appearance South Africa is a calm, peaceful land, spacious and sunny; its peoples-Black, Wh...

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