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Freeda paid with her life for her passionate commitment to social justice. She arrived in Canada as a teenager in 1924 with the family of her aunt, Miriam Bakalinsky. After a series of jobs in the needle trade and dismissals for union activism, she found work with A&M Hurtig Fur Company for $6 a week. After a year, Hurtig fired her for union organizing. In 1933 Hurtig’s employees went on strike and Freda joined the picket line. She was charged with making death threats against scab women. She was convicted of assault, intimidation and unlawful assembly and sentenced to 9 months in jail. Freda contracted tuberculosis while serving her term at Stony Mountain Penitentiary and died about a year later at the age of 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Freda\u2019s brother Max had her grave stone inscribed with these words: “A victim of the Hurtig Furrier Strike August 1933.”\u00a0 The day after it was erected, it was defaced with “Hurtig” scratched out. The stone remains in this state today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News article: Union and Communist Party activist, Pearl Wedro, was taken to hospital with gash in her head needing stitches after being assaulted by a scab during a 1931 Winnipeg strike, while another communist fur worker, Freda Coodin, led fellow picketers on a march to the comfortable home of the factory owner, an affront to middle-class domestic privacy that led to her being jailed. Not even 5 feet tall, she was later convicted of assaulting a scab during a strike at the adamantly anti-union Hurtig Furs. She spent a year in prison, where the fur workers disease, tuberculosis, claimed her life. A martyr for the communist left, her gravestone carried the words \u2018\u2018a victim of the Hurtig strike\u2019\u2019 until they were scratched out by angry opponents.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.erudit.org\/en\/journals\/uhr\/1900-v1-n1-uhr3960\/045104ar\/<\/a>
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Freeda paid with her life for her passionate commitment to social justice. She arrived in Canada as a teenager in 1924 with the family of her aunt, Miriam Bakalinsky. After a series of jobs in the needle trade and dismissals for union activism, she found work with A&M Hurtig Fur Company for $6 a week. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudinsky.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}