By many strikes and demonstrations, the working people got 8 hours labour, increase in their wages, more rights without working exploitation and improving their conditions.
2.What happened the first of May?
It was the day of the demand for 8 hour f work. There were many riots and demonstrations in cities such as Chicago or Barcelona. At the days is the Labour Day.
3.Look for information about the suffragettes. Who was Emily Davison?
Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status. They want the same rights like men.
Emily Wilding Davison (1872 -1913) was a militant women's suffrage activist. She was arrested and imprisoned for various offences, including a violent attack on a man she mistook for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George. She went on hunger strike in Strangeways Prison and was force-fed. In Holloway prison, she threw herself down an iron staircase as a protest. She lost her teacher job, and she was trampled by the horse of King George V, at the Epsom Derby. She died four days later.
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