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168: 66: 25: 299:, it was welcomed by the workers, but the government did not take steps to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the company tried to make train services by force, the police and soldiers pressed for the opening of the line, tried to employ the strikebreaker workers, but backed down in the face of the workers' determination. 345:
There are very few written works on the subject. The primary source is the 47-page manuscripts written by Alaaddin, a member of the TKP, in Ottoman Turkish. Since the impartiality of these manuscripts, which were written in the form of diaries, is doubtful and there were various ruptures within the
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in 1920 and which was prosecuted and whose leaders were killed despite wanting to support the War of Independence, joined the strike. Very few of its cadres were helpful in initiating and maintaining the strike, and intervened when the strike might fail. However, due to insufficient organization in
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The strike, which took place in the early years of the Turkish Republic. Thanks to the strike, the tendency of the workers to the attitude taken by the government was better seen. In addition, the craftsmen and merchants of Adana did not accept the existence of a foreign company engaged in freight
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spread to the railway workers along the entire line. When there was no result in the negotiations between the workers' representatives and the French company officials, a strike began on the whole line on 10 August 1927. Although the Minister of Public Works,
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Adana and communication problems with the underground Central Committee, the party could not fully direct the strike. In addition, the party cadres could not organize adequately as they were under constant police pressure.
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Although the ownership of the train lines passed to the state after the proclamation of Turkey, the operation of the Mersin-Nusaybin line was in the hands of a French company located in the city of
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party at that time, it is necessary to reveal other impartial documents and information on the subject. Information on Müştak Bey, who was the governor of Adana at the time, is also limited.
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transportation and showed a side attitude towards the workers. The government, which did not want to damage the relations that were re-established with France after the
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railway line on August 10, 1927, lasting for 13 days, after which the workers accepted a seven percent salary increase following the intervention of the government.
433: 83: 38: 312: 130: 102: 448: 229: 211: 189: 149: 52: 303:, one of the heroes of the War of Independence, also supported the strike and organized the women of the workers for the strike. 109: 443: 87: 44: 116: 363: 275: 428: 296: 98: 295:, was involved in the negotiations at the beginning of the strike and he was in charge of the railways during the 182: 176: 387: 438: 76: 193: 123: 368:. Washington DC: Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce. 1930. p. 451 286:
The unrest that broke out over the non-payment of the salaries of the railway warehouse workers in
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1927 Adana Demiryolu Grevi, Derleyen: Şeyda Oğuz, TÜSTAV Yayınları, Mayıs 2005
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