<P> 1938--39 . Series of strikes and civil disobedience . WAYL blamed . </P> <P> 1939 . Army mutiny . January, led by Creole gunner Emmanuel Cole . </P> <P> 1948 . Riot at Baoma Chiefdom of Bo District . One hundred people committed for trial before supreme court for their part in it . </P> <P> 1950, October . African United Mine Workers' Union (Secretary - General was Siaka Stevens) strikes in Marampa and Pepel, Northern Province . Strikers riot and burn the house of the African personnel officer . </P>

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