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The “Scarlet Runners” Women Were at the Center of New Zealand’s Six-Month-Long Miners’ Strike
1912 saw one of the biggest battles in New Zealand labor history, a six-month-long miners’ strike that paved the way for the general strike a year later. But it couldn’t have lasted so long without the working-class women who organized to defend their community — the “Scarlet Runners” who fought the strikebreakers.