Article: The miners strike out: the Lethbridge coal miners' strike of 1906.

In December of 1906, nearly 500 men from the Alberta Railway & Irrigation Company (AR&I) coal mines in Lethbridge went back to work for the first time in over nine months. (1) This marked the end of one of the bitterest periods in southern Alberta's labour history--the Lethbridge coal miners' strike of 1906. The strike was particularly long and was punctuated with violent episodes on the part of the strikers. Throughout the year both the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Local 547 and the AR&I stubbornly held to their original positions until the federal government stepped in to mediate an end to the dispute.

Throughout the strike both sides suffered in the ...

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