Morosow strike

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The Morozov strike occurred in January 1885 in the cotton mill of the factory owner Morozov in the Russian city ​​of Orechowo-Sujewo near Moscow .

8,000 weavers worked in the factory , and their working conditions deteriorated rapidly before the strike. Wages were reduced five times in the period 1882–1884, with wage rates being reduced by 25 percent in 1884. The strike was organized by a member of the banned Northern Union of Russian Workers , Peter Moissejenko , who called for the fines to be abolished.

consequences

The strikers destroyed machines and the strike was militarily suppressed. This first organized strike in Russia resulted in the arrest of 600 workers detained in Moscow's Butyrka prison. Several dozen were sentenced. The court ordered that 30 to 50 kopecks be deducted from every ruble earned in the form of fines in favor of the manufacturer. As a result of the trials, the tsarist government regulated the penalty system in factories by law of June 3, 1886.

literature

  • P. Kabanow, R. Jerman: Morozovskaya statschka tysjatscha vossemsot vossemdesjat pjatogo goda . Utschpedgis, 1963. (Russian)

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