Big Lessons from Ontario's Fight For $15

05/05/2021

From boys forging strong friendships to confused mammoths waking up in New York, these illustrated tales gently unlock young emotions

01/16/2019

By Za

01/15/2019

01/15/2019

On the 100th anniversary of her death, these words of Rosa Luxemburg have perhaps never been more relevant. ✊

01/15/2019

All are welcome at the 17th annual Joseph Mairs Memorial on Sunday, Jan. 20.

01/13/2019

If you are attending the Mairs Memorial please consider bringing flowers to lay at the cairn from your org,family or yourself!

01/11/2019

Today is the 107th Anniversary of the start of the "Bread and Roses" strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Mass. This was a pivotal battle in American labor history and in the struggle for women's rights in the United States. The backbone of the strike were women workers and workers from immigrant communities.

Read more at: https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2018/01/bread-and-roses-strike-begins-january.html

12/15/2018

The Joseph Mairs Memorial wants to talk about the Fight for $15. Join us please Jan.20 2019.

12/02/2018

The details from the Mairs cairn...Joseph Mairs was a trade unionist and a coal miner. He died in 1914, a month short of his 22nd birthday, after being arrested by government troops during the Occupation of Ladysmith.

This struggle which coal miners on Vancouver Island waged was for the eight-hour day, health and safety regulations and union recognition.

Joseph rests in the Ladysmith Cemetery beneath a cairn his fellow miners erected in his honour with the inspiring inscription:

“A Martyr to a Noble Cause - The Emancipation of His Fellow Men”.