Protests & strikes
![A group of soldiers marching](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/7b17a7b816b57708ce9debe668cabc8c693de3f0-760x414.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
On This Day
1916 military riot in Sydney
On 14 February 1916 thousands of soldiers from the Liverpool military camp took strike action
![A large group of men stand in front of a train carriage at the Eveleigh Workshops in 1917](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/staging/88189e5117130d462bb3946522fe6e9afa118636-1688x1312.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Eveleigh Workshops during the 1917 railway strike
On 2 August 1917 the General Strike began. It started in the Randwick Rail Workshops & Eveleigh Carriage Workshops & quickly spread to other industries until about 100,000 workers were on strike