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Uncategorized · 2nd August 2007
Editor
The picture below is from an 1955 article in The Pacific Tribune and is titled "A Page From Labour History: The Death of Ginger Goodwin."
The caption for the group picture is as follows:
Ginger Goodwin is the man on horseback in this historic picture of officers of the Western Federation of Miners taken just before the start of the May Day parade at Trail in 1917. Goodwin, who organized the victorious 1917 strike in which 3,000 workers walkd "off the hill," led the parad on horseback.
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Source document from Cumberland Museum and Archives
The caption for the group picture is as follows:
Ginger Goodwin is the man on horseback in this historic picture of officers of the Western Federation of Miners taken just before the start of the May Day parade at Trail in 1917. Goodwin, who organized the victorious 1917 strike in which 3,000 workers walkd "off the hill," led the parad on horseback.
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Source document from Cumberland Museum and Archives
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Comment by Roger Stonebanks on 3rd August 2007
The caption by Pacific Tribune contains a serious error in describing the 1917 Trail smelter strike as "victorious." It was the exact opposite. The strike was defeated, the union fell apart and was replaced by a company union (the Workmen's Co-operative Committee), and the eight-hour day for all smelter workers was not gained until 1919 - by provincial legislation.
The caption by Pacific Tribune contains a serious error in describing the 1917 Trail smelter strike as "victorious." It was the exact opposite. The strike was defeated, the union fell apart and was replaced by a company union (the Workmen's Co-operative Committee), and the eight-hour day for all smelter workers was not gained until 1919 - by provincial legislation.