In the sad history of

the labour struggle, nothing is sadder than when lives are lost. The lives that are lost have generally been those of the working folk.

Miner's Strikes

On this date in 1922 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stopped a peaceful parade of striking miners and fired into them, killing 3 and wounding 5. From the Saskatchewan Encyclopedia, most likely a well-researched article on the terrible event. Here are some photographs. Interestingly, the headstone says 'murdered by RCMP'. The letters RCMP have been defaced from the gravestone numerous times since the burial with people always replacing them, keeping history alive in the face of the revisionists...