by Paul Walton,
Daily NewsPublished: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
July brings an important moment in labour history to Vancouver Island.
It was on July 27, 1918, that Ginger Goodwin, a labour organizer, was gunned down by the Dominion Police outside Courtenay.
Goodwin may not exactly be a household name, even in this part of Canada, but he is well remembered in some circles.
Goodwin was no stranger to the labour fights at the time that Nanaimo coal miners were fighting for basic labour rights.
His story is not that different from that of Joe Hill, after whom the immortal song was written, or the fictional Tom Joad, as created by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath.
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