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Barb: My brother was…came out of school in the Depression and much to my father's dismay he couldn't get him into a trade. So he worked at the Brinton Carpet in the factory. And then we lived on McDonnel Street at that time and he knew about the strikes up at the Bonnerworth Mills. And then he saw where they had brought the police in, I think it was the mounted police they brought in, didn't they? They brought the police in and down came the…I think the Premier of Ontario. The mounted police used those…billy clubs. So Bernard got hit in the head. The Examiner was there and in the Examiner that night was my brother with two girls that were on strike fixing up his head. In those days if you had a job you stuck with it. And my dad said 'It's all right for you to be…it's all right son to be involved with unions.' My dad agreed upon it but he says 'You are…' Bernard was too radical you know, he used to go to the other extreme instead of the happy medium and that was when the little jawing would start in the house.

Barb Glaum