On this day, 27 July 1918, Ginger Goodwin was murdered in Cumberland, Canada. A young miner from England, the appalling conditions in the Cumberland mines caused Ginger to become a labour organiser and eventually a prominent leader of the union and socialist movement in British Columbia. As a conscientious objector to WWI, he fled conscription with others by hiding in the mountains, but was hunted down and murdered by an ex-policeman. His death sparked the 1918 Vancouver general strike six days later. Here is a short piece about the important radical edge of Ginger’s politics: http://libcom.org/history/praise-ginger-goodwin-revere-radical-mark-leier https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1175605272624621/?type=3
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