EU: Working Class Power (Brazil 1917) - Fair Wear - Unisex Organic T-Shirt - FREE DELIVERY Color:Red and the US military provided

and the US military provided them with equipment

an eight hour work day and a 20% wage increase

Not one word was spoken at the beginning that one branch of mankind should rule over another

but a cavalry regiment refused to attack the demonstrators

EU: Working Class Power (Brazil 1917) - Fair Wear - Unisex Organic T-Shirt - FREE DELIVERY Color:Red and the US military providedThis design is inspired by the Rio de Janeiro general strike of 1917 which ended on August 2 with the workers settling for a fifty six hour work week and a 10% wage increase. Strikes had started earlier in Sao Paulo and from there news of the unrest was not slow to reach Rio de Janeiro. When descriptions of the strikes reached one furniture worker on the morning of July 18, he immediately walked off the job calling for a strike at his factory; two