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#OtD 9 Jun 1926 striking furriers demanding a 40-hour week clashed with police and strikebreakers in Manhattan. A scab foreman was stabbed as he tried to cross a picket line, leaving him with light injuries and 7 strikers were arrested stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1091...

#OtD 10 Jun 1942 nine Polish prisoners on work detail at Auschwitz Birkenau escaped while digging a drainage ditch. While most were caught, some, like August Kowalczyk (pictured) and Jerzy Łachecki managed to evade recapture and survive the war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8212...

#OtD 9 Jun 1963 civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested in Mississippi on trumped up charges and brutally beaten in jail on the orders of police. She had previously been sterilised without consent, as were many other Black women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1091...

#OtD 9 Jun 1944 99 civilians were hanged from lampposts and balconies by Nazi troops in Tulle, France, in response to anti-fascist resistance fighters killing 40 Nazi soldiers. Others were sent to the concentration camps, leaving 213 dead in total stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1091...

#OtD 9 Jun 1965 forces of the Dhofar Liberation Front ambushed a government patrol. Part of the Dhofar rebellion, which began in 1962 against the quasi-mediaeval rule of the Sultan of Oman, who was backed by the UK. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7995...

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#OtD 10 Jun 1927 in Italy, the trial of anarchist Gino Lucetti concluded for attempting to assassinate Mussolini. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison; two others received 12 years. He was killed by shelling in 1943 before the end of the war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...

#OtD 10 Jun 1973 a strike of gravediggers at 3 cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area was expanded to include 44 others. Strikers defied a court order, the jailing of their union leader and after 27 days they won a pension scheme and pay increase stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8213...

On this day, 10 June 1973, a strike of gravediggers at three cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area was expanded to include 44 others. On June 21, the courts ordered strikers to return to work, which they ignored. The president of the striking Local 365 of the Cemetery Workers and Greens Attendants union was subsequently found guilty of contempt of court, jailed and fined. Eventually, after 27 days of strike action, the employers from Jewish, Roman Catholic and nonsectarian cemeteries, collectively agreed most of the workers' demands, including annual wage increases of $12 per week for the next three years, and an employer-funded pension scheme. During the dispute some bodies were buried by relatives and friends of the deceased, but a backlog of at least 1,400 unburied bodies remained. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8213/NY-gravediggers-strike-grows

#OtD 10 Jun 1918 African workers rallied in Johannesburg to protest the jailing of 152 municipal workers who had gone on strike for more pay. Radicals organised a general strike which was called off, but thousands walked out anyway stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8211...

#OtD 10 Jun 1907 the first edition of Chinese anarchist feminist magazine Tianyi (Natural Justice) was published in exile in Tokyo. It had been founded by He Zhen, a leading member of the Women's Rights Recovery Association stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8210...