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Fusillade de Fourmies

Cover of the Petit Parisien on 17 May 1891
Date	1 May 1891
Location	Fourmies, Nord, France
Participants	French citizens

The Fusillade de Fourmies was an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. Government troops fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !" (it's the eight-hour day we need), killing nine people and injuring 35 others.

Context

Fourmies was a small town of 2000 people at the beginning of the 19th century, but it had an important industrial growth because of the textile industry. In 1891, it had 37 silk and wool mills, and 15 000 people, in majority factory workers.

In the factories, workers worked for 12 hours a day, and six days a week. Their salaries were particularly low.

Starting in 1885, the textile industry in the Nord began to experience difficulties. These difficulties had direct repercussions on workers, with unemployment and salary reductions when food and lodging expenses were rising.

History

Call to strike

The right to strike was allowed in France since The Ollivier law on 25 May 1864, but the Trade unions were allowed only since the Waldeck-Rousseau law on 21 March 1884.

Bibliography

• André Pierrard, Jean-Louis Chappat, La Fusillade de Fourmies : Premier mai 1891, Maxima, Paris, 1991 ISBN 2-84003-000-4
• Madeleine Rebérioux, Fourmies et les Premier mai, Fourmies Colloquium 1891/1991 (1991), Éditions de l'Atelier, 1994, ISBN 2-7082-3077-8
• Odette Hardy-Hémery, L'envers d'une fusillade : Fourmies, 1er mai 1891, L'Harmattan, coll. « Collection Chemins de la mémoire », 2000 ISBN 2738442226
• Justinien Raymond, Hippolyte Culine, Dictionnaire biographique, mouvement ouvrier, mouvement social, « Le Maitron », 2010.

References

1. "1er mai 1891 : la fusillade de Fourmies". histoire-image.org. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
2. Jean-Claude Daumas (2004). Les Territoires de la laine: Histoire de l’industrie lainière en France au XIXe siècle. Presses Universitaires de France. pp. 157–161. ISBN 9782859398125.
3. ^ Odette Hardy-Hémery (2000). L'envers d'une fusillade : Fourmies, 1er mai 1891. L'Harmattan. ISBN 2738442226.
4. Madeleine Rebérioux (1994). Fourmies et les Premier mai. L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7082-3077-8.
5. "25 mai 1864, vote de la Loi Ollivier, qui ouvre la voie au droit de grève". Europe 1. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
6. Denis Barbet (1991). Retour sur la loi de 1884. La production des frontières du syndical et du politique. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire.
7. La Fusillade de Fourmies : Premier mai 1891. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
8. "Hippolyte Culine". maitron-en-ligne.univ-paris1.fr. Retrieved 24 March 2019.

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