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Show First Strike by Unionists. The English tailors havo the credit for being tho first to offer organized resistance to Industrial oppression, and henco were tho pioneers of modern mod-ern trado unionism. As early as 1721, In tho dnys of tho handicrafts, thero was n union of tailors In London numbering num-bering 15,000. nnd they went on striko for better conditions of employment, notwithstanding tho acts of parliament thnt outlawed such combinations, mndo strikes a criminal ac' nnd limited limit-ed wags by lnw |