1946 Palestine general strike

1946 strike by Palestinians The 1946 Palestine general strike was a general strike in Mandatory Palestine, then under British rule, in April 1946.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315595672-6/cross-national-collective-action-palestine-mixed-towns-1946-civil-servants-strike1-david-de-vries 10.4324/9781315595672-6 1 July 2025 Cross-National Collective Action in Palestine's Mixed Towns: The 1946 Civil Servants Strike1 Taylor & Francis 22 April 2016 Currivan Gene Currivan 1946-04-17 PALESTINE TIED UP BY STRIKE OF 50,000; 15 Jews End Hunger Protest on Official Pledge to Admit 1,200 Detained in Italy https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/17/archives/palestine-tied-up-by-strike-of-50000-15-jews-end-hunger-protest-on.html 2024-07-04 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 Strike On 9 April 1946, 500 postal workers in Tel Aviv and Jaffa walked out on strike.11 April 1946 PALESTINE POSTAL STRIKE; Junior Employee Halt Telephone, Telegraph, Radio Services https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/11/archives/palestine-postal-strike-junior-employee-halt-telephone-telegraph.html 24 June 2024 The New York Times The striking workers were joined by other post workers elsewhere in Palestine the next day, and later that week, by railway workers, the first general rail-post strike in the history of Mandatory Palestine. Other civil servants in Palestine would also join the strike, bringing total participation to 23 000 workers.6 June 2021 Palestinian Workers Have a Long History of Resistance https://jacobin.com/2021/06/palestinian-labor-trade-unions-strike-resistance-worker-solidarity-may-18-labor-history Beinin Joel 24 June 2024 Jacobin1946-04-20 PALESTINE OIL PLANTS FACE STRIKE THREAT https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/20/archives/palestine-oil-plants-face-strike-threat.html 2024-07-04 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 The colonial officials attempted to use soldiers to replace the striking workers.16 April 1946 PALESTINE STRIKE HALTS RAILROADS; 4,000 Arabs and Jews Walk Out in Harmony--10,000 Troops Ordered to Work https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/16/archives/palestine-strike-halts-railroads-4000-arabs-and-jews-walk-out-in.html 24 June 2024 The New York Times Chief Secretary of the Mandate John Valentine Wistar Shaw met with the strike leaders for the first time on 18 April.18 April 1946 Strike in Palestine Paralyzes Country; Troops Handle Telephone and Mail Services https://www.jta.org/archive/strike-in-palestine-paralyzes-country-troops-handle-telephone-and-mail-services 24 June 2024 Jewish Telegraphic Agency The strike ended on 24 April, with an agreement to raise wages for junior employees and a war bonus being issued to the workers. Reactions The strike was widely supported by communists in Mandatory Palestine. The Kol HaAm and Al-Ittihad newspapers both published articles urging on the strike.1 November 2004 British Rule and Arab-Jewish Coalescence of Interest: The 1946 Civil Servants' Strike in Palestine https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/abs/british-rule-and-arabjewish-coalescence-of-interest-the-1946-civil-servants-strike-in-palestine/58322EDB43542C38BC068FD6904B3E33 de Vries David 24 June 2024 International Journal of Middle East Studies 36 4 613–638 10.1017/S0020743804364056 subscription Writing for Socialist Appeal, Trotskyist Tony Cliff claimed that the strike disproved "the fable which imperialism, Zionism and the reactionary Arab leadership try to bolster up that unity of the Arab and Jewish masses is impossible to achieve."15 May 1946 Palestine Strike: Arabs and Jews Unite https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1946/05/strike.html Cliff Tony 24 June 2024 Socialist Appeal The strike received international support from the International Association of Railway Employees and the World Federation of Trade Unions. Judah Leon Magnes described the strike as "complete unity and solidarity between the thousands of striking Arab and Jewish government officers," saying that it was "but one example of what can come about if the declared sincere policy of the government will be Arab-Jewish cooperation." In mid-May 1946, speaking in the British House of Lords, Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham argued that Britain needed to "take heed of the warning which has been given" by the strike, saying that it was "the one thing which has entirely united British, Arabs and Jews, who acted together without any difficulty to establish their rights in this respect."https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1946-05-14/debates/b2e57651-3ef1-4a41-87ad-e8310da2a1e8/PayOfPalestineCivilServants Pay of Palestine Civil Servants - Hansard - UK Parliament See also 1946 in Mandatory Palestine List of strikes in Palestine References Category:1946 labor disputes and strikes Category:1946 in Mandatory Palestine Category:Labor disputes in Palestine Category:April 1946 in Asia Category:General strikes in Asia