The Valentine’s Day Strike of 1921

Today’s show is from On the Line: Stories of BC Workers, the podcast from the Labour Heritage Centre in British Columbia. One hundred years ago on Valentine's Day, 1921, a group of courageous public school teachers in New Westminster, British Columbia -- -- most of them young women -- defiantly took a stand…PLUS: On Labor History in 2:00: Kansas City Laundresses Walk Off the Job. 

Produced/edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com

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