Historical Organization

Industrial and Commercial Workers Union

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Industrial and Commercial Workers Union

Also known as: ICU

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Organization Timeline

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded

📅 7 January 1919

Clements Kadalie helped establish a dockworkers' union in Cape Town that grew into a mass organization of Black and Coloured workers and rural tenants during the 1920s.