22h 4min, aug 1, 1952 y - Violent strike at the Misr
Company textile factories at Kafr ad Dawwar in the Delta.
Description:
Workers attacked and set fire to
part of the premises, destroyed machinery, and clashed with the police. The army was
called in to put down the strike; several workers lost their lives, and scores were injured.
The RCC set up a special military court that tried the arrested textile workers. Two were
convicted and executed, and many others were given prison sentences. The regime reacted
quickly and ruthlessly because it had no intention of encouraging a popular revolution that
it could not control. It then arrested about thirty persons charged with belonging to the
outlawed Communist Party of Egypt (CPE). The Democratic Movement for National
Liberation, a faction of the CPE, reacted by denouncing the regime as a military
dictatorship.
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