Montreal’s first student strike
Taylor C. Noakes tells about Montreal’s first student strike when Jewish kids from Aberdeen School occupied St Louis Square in 1913.
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Taylor 16:11 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
Thanks for posting. And I think the Aberdeen Strike may have been both the first student strike as well as the first strike protesting antisemitism in Canadian history. Though please let me know if I’m wrong
Ian 21:43 on 2024-05-15 Permalink
Great article, a glimpse into the past and a link to the present, with lots of context. I knew about the schmata business as the start of the union movement in Montreal but I didn’t realize the kids were involved.
At the same time in Hamilton Ontario my Sicilian grandmother and many of her contemporaries worked in the needletrade as children, my nonna left grade 6 to work a sewing machine. They too were treated like vermin in school, while their parents built the labour movement in their own workplaces in the steel mills.