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General strike shuts down key colonial services

Nigerian workers launched a major general strike over wages and wartime cost-of-living pressures.

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1945

General strike shuts down key colonial services

Nigerian workers launched a major general strike over wages and wartime cost-of-living pressures.

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Nigerian workers launched a major general strike over wages and wartime cost-of-living pressures. The strike lasted weeks and demonstrated labor's national reach.

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