Italian Immigrant Workers Launch A Strike Wave for 40 Hour Work Week

This strike involves 7,000 small textile factories employing 43,000 people. These strikers have developed ingenious ways of blocking the plant.

“SUDD Cobas is famous for these permanent blockades. Picketers eat, sleep, and hang out at the presidio, the term used by SUDD Cobas members to refer to the infrastructure of tents, tables, chairs, and gazebos erected to support everyday life at the picket line.”