workingclasshistory:On this day, 18 July 1917, a furniture worker in Rio de Janeiro learned of a strike in São Paulo and walked off the job. Two of his colleagues joined him. By the afternoon, 150 workers walked out, and by the next day workers at five
workingclasshistory:On this day, 18 July 1917, a furniture worker in Rio de Janeiro learned of a strike in São Paulo and walked off the job. Two of his colleagues joined him. By the afternoon, 150 workers walked out, and by the next day workers at five