[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, but on the night of February 24 , about 400 engineers went on strike, starting Japan's first mass strike . This resulted in the suspension of train services on the entire Tohoku Main Line between Ueno Station and Aomori Station

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

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