The Industrial Workers of the World and the unemployed In Edmonton and Calgary in the Depression of 1913-1915
Submitted by wojtek on Mar 11 2013 12:55
A paper by David Schultz studying the IWW's efforts to organize the unemployed of Edmonton and Calgary during the economic depression of 1913-15: most were transient, unskilled workers, and many had just arrived from railway construction camps in the interior where the IWW had led massive strikes.
Labour /Le Travail Vol. 25, (Spring, 1990), pp. 47-75.
Anarchists and locals send nazis packing in Edmonton, Canada
Submitted by R.R. Berkman on Mar 25 2012 02:53
Nazis attempted to rally in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and were sent "fleeing" by anti-racist activists.
A white supremacist rally in Edmonton's downtown lasted only minutes when the demonstrators fled into a subway stairwell after they were greeted by over 300 antiracist.
Police then blocked subway platform entrances until the roughly two dozen self described white pride demonstrators, most of them masked, were able to leave on a train.
Hospital workers across Edmonton walk out on wildcat strike
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 16 2012 20:47
Hundreds of support workers at the Royal Alexandra and University of Alberta hospitals in Canada walked out this morning in a dispute over pay and conditions.
So far dozens of surgeries have been cancelled as diagnostic imaging clerks, cleaners and technicians downed tools at at least 12 different sites at 7 AM.
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees stated that they believed workers at Mayerthorpe, Radway, Peace River and Claresholm were also either taking or considering taking similar action.
One worker told the Edmonton Journal:
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