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On this day, 27 August 1889, the great strike of East End Jewish tailors in London began during a dockers' strike.
8,000 workers, mostly Jewish immigrants from Russia, elected a strike committee and walked out, demanding a maximum 12-hour working day (they were working 14-18 hours).
Despite the antipathy of the dockers' union leader, predominantly Irish Catholic dockers donated to the strike fund and helped the tailors hold out until October when the employers caved in.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9881/jewish-east-end-tailors-strike-begins
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