With Brian Richardson

A special performance of one of the most powerfull speeches during the trial of one of the strike leaders of 1919

Mondragon Bookstore and Coffee House, 91 Albert Street
7:30 P.M

Tickets $5.00 available at Mondragon or Workers Oganizing Resource Center

An Evening of Labour Songs: Joe Jencks and Anne Feeney in Concert
Join us for an inspirational and fun evening of labour music provided by two of North America‘s most accomplished working class singers.

Winnipeg Art Gallery Auditorium
300 Memorial Blvd.

7:30 P.M.

Tickets $20 in advance at Organic Planet, Sled Dog Music, Sonus Musica, Folk Festival Music Store, Walnut Street Music – cash only

Join our tour guides on a chartered bus as they share details about the life of Mike Sokolowski, the Ukrainian immigrant killed during the culmination of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike – “Bloody Saturday” June 15th, as well an many other sites of interest that have direct connections to that tumultuous time. The tour begins at the Union Center and makes its way to the Vulcan Iron Works where it all began. You will also have a chance to see and feel Hell’s Alley where many of the marchers were beaten on that fateful day. You will also bear witness to a memorial graveside service for Mike Sokolowski at Brookside Cemetery before returning to the Union Center.

Union Centre
275 Broadway Ave.
12:00 Noon

Tickets are available at the Workers Organizing Resource Center, Mezzanine
280 Smith Street 947-2220 or at Mondragon, 91 Albert Street 946-5241

The Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians presents Mostly Mandolins.

The Mandolin Orchestra, one of Manitoba’s artistic treasures, again takes to the MayWorks stage to perform at the Ukrainian Labour Temple. The Mandolin Orchestra is Manitoba’s oldest orchestra — it pre-dates the Winnipeg Symphony — and is the oldest orchestra of its kind in Canada. Mostly Mandolins will be an evening of music that should not be missed.

Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard

8:00 p.m.
Tickets $15
For more information contact Carmen at 334-7591

May 8 to10 Rekindling the Spirit of 1919
Knox United Church 400 Edmonton Street
Weekend celebration of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike with a focus on what we can learn from this important historical event. A time and place for those promoting social justice and environmental issues in workplaces, community, and schools. A chance to meet, learn, plan and mobilize.

Friday; May 8th 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m
Panel presentation on history of the strike and it’s relevance to today with anti-poverty activist John Clarke, labour historian James Naylor and others.
John Clarke came to Canada in 1976 from London, England where he had been active in high school organizing and trade union struggles. He took a job at the Westinghouse Plant in London, Ontario and became a shop steward with United Electrical Workers, Local 546. In 1982, he was laid off and became involved in organizing unemployed workers. The following year, he was elected President of the newly formed London Union of Unemployed Workers (LUUW). In 1989 this organization was one of many that worked on a March on the Ontario Legislature and this led to the formation of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). He became an organizer with OCAP in 1990 and has remained with that organization ever since.

Jim Naylor is a labour historian teaching at Brandon University. He has written about the 1919 Canadian labour uprising in The New Democracy: Challenging the Social Order in Industrial Ontario, 1914-1925 and contributed to a reappraisal of the Winnipeg General Strike in C. Heron, ed., The Workers’ Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925. He is currently engaged in a study of socialism in Canada during the 1930s and 1940s in which he explores the collapse of the working-class identity and unity that was so apparent in the General Strike movement after World War One.