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Show First Strike by Unionists. The English tailors havo tho credit tor being tho flrst to offer organized resistance to industrial oppression, and honco wero tho pioneers of modern mod-ern trade unionism. Ab early as 1721, In tbo days of tha handicrafts, tbero was a union of tailors In London mini-baring mini-baring 15.000, nnd they went on strlko tor better conditions of employment, notwithstanding tho acts of parliament that outlawed such combinations, mado strikes a criminal act and limited limit-ed wages by law. |