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Omaha Steve

(99,660 posts) Wed Nov 18, 2015, 04:41 PM Nov 2015

November 18, 1929 two murders

http://nhlabornews.com/2015/11/november-18-1929/

Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen – two Finnish-Canadian members of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada from Thunder Bay, Ontario – disappear on their way to recruit sympathetic bushworkers for a strike. Their bodies were found at Onion Lake by a union search party the following spring and the community suspected that they had been murdered by company thugs.

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November 18, 1929 two murders (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 2015 OP

Were they not armed? Had they not... Whiskeytide Nov 2015 #1

Whiskeytide

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1. Were they not armed? Had they not...

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Wed Nov 18, 2015, 04:48 PM

Nov 2015

... Heard of the 2nd A? Where the Hell was LaPierre?

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Thanks for these posts. My only observation is that I'm not so sure we should be taking the rights they fought to secure "for granted" these days!

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