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Sandbach Parker and Company

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Sandbach Parker and Company

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Georgetown waterfront workers strike for better wages

đź“… 28 November 1905

On 28 November 1905, workers at Sandbach Parker’s wharf in Georgetown began a strike over low pay and exhausting conditions. Dockworkers worked long hours, lacked overtime compensation for night work,...