May 20 - 24 1919 Brandon is on Strike !
5/22/2009 at 1:45 AM
On May 20 Brandon votes to strike in sympathy with the Winnipeg General Strike.
Over the course of four days hundreds of workers would go off the job and bring Brandon to a crawl.
For more on Brandon's General Strike:
Brandon, 1919: Labour and Industrial Relations in the Wheat City in the Year of the General Strike
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/17/brandon1919strike.shtml
for more on the stirke in general, I am doing a daily blog at
http://1919winnipeggeneralstrike.blogspot.com/