Serifos miners strike

[3] Several small landowners were stripped of their land, in many occasions forcibly, and given a miner's wage as an exchange.

The union's statutory text, signed by 460 members, demanded the reduction of the working day to 8 hours, increases in the wages and in safety measures.

[4] On August 7, the workers refused to load the mining production to the ship that was to carry it away, until their demands were satisfied.

[2] After the bloody events, the workers captured some of the main municipal buildings such as the police headquarters and the city hall and took control of the island.

However due to the popular support of the strike by the island's residents, some of the demands of the strikers were satisfied: the work-day was reduced to 8 hours per day for the first time in Greece,[5][3][2] wages were increased and the transport to and from the mines was covered by the company.