Two weeks ago, Vicki Gilhula shared the tale of the time Mike Solski was shot during a town council meeting. In Part Two this week, she tells the other part of the Solski saga, that of his time as head and one of the last holdouts, of Local 598, once the country’s most powerful labour union
Mike Solski, the former mayor of Nickel Centre, made headlines in 1978 when he was almost killed by an angry property owner who was later found not guilty of attempted murder by reason of insanity.It's a wonder someone had not tried to shoot him before. Solski had been a powerful and controversial union leader during the Cold War and Red Scare following the Second World War.
The late journalist Mick Lowe, who wrote three novels about the "Steel Raids" and who passed away in 2021, interviewed Solski before his death at 81 in 1999. You can watch that interview here. “Mike well remembered the days when the smelter manager was automatically elected mayor of Coniston, and when shift bosses would arrive at workers’ homes unannounced demanding their annual Christmas tribute – cash or a bottle of booze.
Inco unionized workers voted to join the Steelworkers in 1962 by a thin margin, but Mine Mill Local 598 continued to represent approximately 2,000 hourly-rated employees at Falconbridge until 1993.
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