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Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union

union, South Africa
Also known as: ICU

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history of South Africa

  • Namib desert
    In Southern Africa: Political organizations and trade unions

    …a Nyasaland migrant, founded the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU). Initially consisting of dockworkers in Cape Town, the ICU spread rapidly as a mass movement in the towns and in the countryside, where those who had been evicted responded with millenarian zeal to its message. At its height the…

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  • South Africa
    In South Africa: The Pact years (1924–33)

    …mass-based Black political organization, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), flourished in response to deteriorating conditions. Until 1926 the ICU was a Cape-based organization with Black and some Coloured members drawn mainly from urban areas. As a broadly based vehicle of rural protest, it had many thousands of supporters…

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