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           The British workers managed to get a nine hour work day but they had many accidents in the last hour. Canadian made it a goal to work nine hours a day. The printers of the globe made it a strike and later workers of other Toronto newspapers joined them.  

 

 

         George brown, the publisher of the globe who organized other newspaper publishers to react immediately against the strikers and the Nine hour movement. Seventeen other newspaper publishers joined George brown. The strike breakers replaced the workers and their jobs. The strike ended without the workers being granted their wishes.    

 

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