Martin A. Klein
Department of History mklein@epas.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto office 416-978-8284
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On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, Harold Marcus wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 12:44
> From: Claire Dehon <DEHONCL@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
>
> I am working on the novel God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene. I would
> like to have information about the strike described in the book of the
> railroad workers that lasted from October 47 till April 48. Was it
> successful, how successful? The basic histories do not offer any infor
> mation about it. Thanks a million in advance
>
They won a partial victory. Fred Cooper has an article on an earlier
strike (1946) in the Canadian Journal of African Studies. Jean
Suret-Canale has an on La greve des cheminots d'AOF in Cahiers
d'Histoire 28 (1978), 82-122.... abrdiged in Peter Gutkind et al, African
labour History. See also his article Tarikh V (1977)