#OtD 13 May 1935 workers loading bananas in Oracabessa, Jamaica, went on strike, rioted, cut power lines and blocked roads to stop scabs. British colonial authorities sent in armed police to suppress the strike, but strikes continued to spread https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8504/oracabessa-wharf-strike

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