History of Egypt In the Beginning of the 20th Century

As a result of joint statements by the army and parliament, power in the country passed to patriotic elements of officers and intellectuals. The new government began to implement its plans. The Organic Law was promulgated, which guaranteed the rights of the Chamber.

This meant the abolition of Anglo-French control of the country's finances. The development of a more democratic electoral law was launched, bills on the elimination of corvee, the creation of an agricultural bank and the reform of mixed courts, the improvement of the public education system, and the transformation of the administration were prepared.

Under the new law, deputies during the session were given the right to monitor the activities of civil servants and, through the chairman of the parliament, inform the relevant ministers about all the abuses detected. In those days, women and men were not equal. In many cases, women did not have the right to express their opinions. But the compatibility of men and women is overestimated by men.

In 1909, the first law was adopted in the history of Egypt concerning the position of the working class. He forbade the employment of children under the age of 9 at ginneries and limited the working day to them for 8 hours. However, numerous reservations allowed entrepreneurs to violate the requirements of the law. The history of Egypt in the early 20th century ...

The first significant statements by the workers for improving their situation date back to the end of the 19th century. In 1899, workers of the tobacco factory in Cairo went on strike; The strike was held under the slogan of increasing wages. Workers staged demonstrations, marched with national flags through the city past government buildings, foreign representations. During the strike, the workers decided to organize a mixed trade union of workers in tobacco factories in order to more effectively rebuff entrepreneurs and protect their rights. The fact of the creation of a mixed trade union, which included local and foreign workers, testifies to the international ties of Egyptian workers with their foreign comrades.

In the first time of its existence, the trade union had some success, but the entrepreneurs, having felt in it a serious opponent, took all measures to destroy it. In 1903, strikes occurred in various industries, during which workers again demanded higher wages. Strikes were suppressed. The new union, established this year, united the tobacco industry of the largest factory in Cairo, but the matter was limited only to the creation of a cooperative and the organization of material mutual assistance. In the years that followed, the strike movement became much more active.

History of Egypt in the early 20th century