At the end of the 19th century, the textile workers in Lima protested for having 16-hour working days. This initiated a series of events that led to the 8-hour working day that now exists in Peru.
“We have to go back many years. At the end of the 19th century, and 10 years after the events of the Martyrs of Chicago, in Lima the textile workers had 16-hour working days. This fact would mark the beginning of the mobilizations”, wrote El Comercio.
Workers, bakers, weavers, tanners, motorists, bus and streetcar transporters, as well as low police workers, went on strike at the beginning of January to demand fewer hours. The national strike was imminent and action had to be taken.
After many protests and with a civil war about to take place, on January 15 the then President José Pardo signed a decree that established an 8-hour working day, which ended the national strike and all conflicts with the unions.
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