The women at the Corruganza box factory in Summerstown, Tooting, South London struck in protest against wage cuts. Mary Macarthur organised a mass meeting to hear their grievances and to recruit them into the National Federation of Women Workers (NFWW). After 4 weeks, the local NFWW organiser, Sophy Sanger negotiated a satisfactory settlement in September 1908. All wage reductions except in one agreed job, were withdrawn and all the strikers were reinstated. A forewoman Mary Williams, who had initially complained about the reductions, did not want to return and the NFWW undertook to find her alternative employment.

In this photograph of the demonstration in Trafalgar Square, Mary Macarthur stands at the extreme right of the group, and note the telegraph boy at the front left.

Title	Corruganza box makers strike, 1908
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Production Date	1908
Format	Photograph
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Holding Institution	TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University
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