The Winnipeg General Strike began 100 years ago today when 30,000 workers walked off the job. One Spanish Civil War volunteer, a Lithuanian-Canadian miner, brickmaker, and farm worker named Liudes "Louis" Kisielis, said he participated. Kisielis was born in 1902, likely in Pasodas, Lithuania, and though our records say he immigrated to Canada in 1928, it's possible that like many other volunteers he moved between Canada and Europe several times. Further complicating the timeline of Kisielis' life, his files say he served with the Lithuanian Army in 1924. Kisielis was a labour activist and member of the Communist Party of Canada from 1931, striking in the Estevan coal mines, working as secretary of the American-Lithuanian Workers Literature Association, and spending 6 months in jail for striking in Fort William. In Spain from May 1937, he served with the Dimitrov Battalion artillery and anti-tank units, working as a telephonist and pointer. He was wounded in action twice, resulting in three months of hospitalization, before returning to Canada in February 1939. On his return, Kisielis was a member of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion Veterans' Association, and died in 1989.