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Undercover agents of the police were also among the protesters. One of them shot the anarchist Stanyo Valev from the second floor of the factory. Strike leader Kiril
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Anton Yugov was the first of them to stand on the podium. After beginning with the word "Comrades", insults and stones were thrown against him. The secretary of the district committee, Ivan Prumov, tried to protect the minister and militiamen started shooting in the air. Stanko
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The strikers from the three warehouses held a rally in the yard of "Ivan
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Then Prumov ordered the militia to shoot and the militiamen began to shoot at the strikers who started to disperse. A member of the strike committee, was killed with the first shots and several other people also fell. Arrests began with the detained being stacked into trucks. The delegation of
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On May 3, the night shift at the "Ivan
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Plovdiv had been traditionally a center for the tobacco industry since late 19th century. In 1947, the
Bulgarian tobacco industry was nationalized and the rights of workers to unionize were limited in favor of the official party-affiliated unions. However, on September of the same year another
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At the beginning of April 1953, lists of workers who would stay employed and those who would be unemployed for the next year were published. As a result, the tobacco workers decided to organize themselves to demand full-year employment instead of seasonal one, a 5-day working week and the
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make a demonstration against the monopoly secretariat. More protesters gathered around the factory and warehouses of "Thomasyan" - according to some testimonies, hundreds, according to others - thousands. At that moment, a delegation of the authorities arrived:
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Soon after the strike, Ivan Prumov was promoted to
Minister of Agriculture, mayor Balkandzhiev was awarded the Order of Civil Valor, and the head of the Plovdiv police was elevated to the head of the "Tobacco Industry" union.
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Two of the leaders of the strike, Dimitar
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re-instatement of the pre-nationalization bonuses. On April 20, the workers sent their demands in writing to Prime
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