On 27 July 1902, a group of reed cutters refused a work task paid at 15 cents per bed. Management proposed a higher rate for the longest beds, but workers considered the offer inadequate. Their refusal was a direct challenge to piece-rate wage setting, which made workers bear the risk that task rates would not compensate for the labor and distance required.
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What wage dispute prompted the 27 July 1902 refusal?
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The article says reed cutters refused the 15-cent-per-bed task rate.
No workers were killed when troops fired at Mariënburg on 30 July 1902.
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Seventeen died immediately and seven later died of their wounds.