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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans

In May 1948, when the Nationalist Government came to power, the union was engaged in a struggle with the clothing manufa...

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Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
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Jan 13, 2012

Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Five years after the Government forced him to relinquish his general Secretary, the name of E. Sachs still lives in peop...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

The worldwide depression, which started in 1929, had a serious effect on South African economic life. By 1930, industria...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union

The tremendous achievements of the union in all spheres since (928 were made possible largely by the rapid development o...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Bad as conditions were in factories, the evil of homework was even worse. The worker who is compelled to turn his home i...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

The Nationalist Party, though always claiming to have no association with Nazism, had staked everything on a Nazi victor...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 28. I Fight Back

Serving the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months th...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

From the moment I assumed office, I came face-to-face with the "Poor White" problem, one of the major tragedies of South...

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Jan 13, 2012

Acknowledgements

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Katie Viljoen "Work Like Hell and be Merry" I was born in 1912 on a farm near Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State. ...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe

In the general election of May 1948, the Nationalist Party polled 400,453 votes and its ally, the Afrikaner Party, 41,88...

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Jan 13, 2012

Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother

Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, Edenvale district, Orange Free St...

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Jan 13, 2012

Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism

From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner The Christian human model is one of freedom and openness. T...

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Jan 13, 2012

Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa

From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner South Africa is an unequal society. The inequalities are th...

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