Princeton, 1932 to 1933. The Ku Klux Klan torches a sinister cross; local vigilantes kidnap a labour organizer; the town seethes with sensationalist attack on Soviet-inspired Reds. This is not Woodrow Wilson’s Princeton; these are not United States happenings. Rather, this all takes place in an industrial hamlet in southern British Columbia’s Similkameen Valley, site of a number of bitter strikes by the Mine Workers Union of…
Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer, long associated with the journal Labour/Le Travail and chair of the Canadian Studies Department at Trent University, is author or editor of 20 books on working class history and related subjects. His most recent, Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History, co-authored with Gaetan Heroux, will be published by Between the Lines in 2016.