At the beginning of the following year, the dockworkers went on strike demanding that the Evangelistria rolling mill not operate so that they would not lose their jobs or at least those who would be fired would receive some compensation.
[2] On April 26, 1934, a meeting was held in which representatives of the Ministry of Labor also participated, in which a plan was discussed to reduce the number of dockworkers by approximately 200 (as the rolling mill would be put into operation) and the establishment of a pension fund for those over 40 years of age, they would leave.
Afterwards, the strikers took the dead bodies of their comrades and carried them through the streets of the city, in a state of rage while cursing the murderers.
[3] The events were condemned by workers throughout Greece and several protests and strikes in solidarity with Kalamata's strikers occurred the following days.
However the ones sitting in the defendant's place where workers, 4 of whom were sentenced to 18 months in prison and two years of exile in Agios Efstratios.