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Oshawa Strike Headlines, 1928

Collage of three newspaper clippings. Headlines read 2000 General Motors Workers Now On Strike, Conciliation Board for Oshawa Strike, Majority of Oshawa Strikers Satisfied

Clippings from the Lethbridge Herald, March 27, and Winnipeg Free Press, March 31 and April 3, showing the rapid progress of the 1928 Oshawa strike. The walkout made international headlines – as did the closure of local liquor stores, which stated they did not want strikers to “waste their money.”