GC2AV8R The Stratford Strike of 1933 (Traditional Cache) in Ontario, Canada created by dazed 'n confused

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GC2AV8R ▼

A cache by dazed 'n confused Message this owner

Hidden : 6/26/2010

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Stratford, Ontario is famous for many reasons. It also has some infamous moments as well. Go back in time to the year 1933 and King Street, Stratford, where things haven’t changed much in 77 years. Let your imagination play out this dramatic scenario.

This small traditional cache has been hidden in a location where dramatic Canadian labour history occurred in September/October of 1933 when the workers of six Stratford furniture factories challenged the owners to improve hourly wages and working conditions during the Great Depression by staging an all-out general strike. The Stratford mayor called on the Federal Government to send in the Canadian militia to quell the civil unrest. With armed troops patrolling the streets of Stratford with tanks, the strikers were forced into eventually settling for less than their initial demands. Most historians agree that the Stratford workers of 1933 raised the bar for organized labour and made it the strong blue-collar town it is today.

When you find this cache, you will be standing down the street from the former Preston-Noelting Furniture Factory, 163 King Street, Stratford. One morning in 1933 during the strike, one of the most violent actions occurred when owners attempted to move a truckload of furniture out of the loading docks at the south end of the building under cover of darkness. Strikers had already sabotaged the truck by putting sugar in the gas tank and waited in the bushes along King Street to pounce. As the truck pulled out and made a northerly run towards Ontario Street, a hail of sticks and stones greeted the loaded truck. The sugar stopped the truck dead by the time it got to Albert Street and the crew jumped out and ran for their lives. The truck along with its full load of furniture was completely overrun and destroyed by the marauding strikers. Forsooth, no Shakespearean play could match this real-life drama!

Thirty years ago, I taught this story to my history class at nearby public school and invited into the classroom one of the 1933 strike leaders. He admitted that some people still bore grudges over the strike and were still not talking to each other forty years later. He would not talk about the furniture truck episode!

This small camoed cache is located a few metres from the scene of this 1933 debacle, with enough room for a visitor log and a few small items. The 1933 nickel found inside is the FTF prize.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)