[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is February 24th?

Railway Strike Day (set on the Tohoku Main Line)

In 1898, a time when labor disputes were rampant throughout Japan,the Nippon Railway Company,, launched a dispute demanding wage increases and a change in job titles (from locomotive officer to locomotive engineer, from apprentice locomotive engineer to apprentice locomotive engineer, from firefighter to crew locomotive trainee, and from cleaner to locomotive trainee).

Nippon Steel retaliated by firing 10 ringleaders, butof February 24, about 400 engineers went on strike,Japan's first mass strikestartingthe entire Tohoku Main Line between Ueno Station and Aomori StationThis resulted in the suspension of train services on

formed at this time,The "Japan Railway Reform Association,"is considered Japan's first company-based labor union.

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