Alternate name(s):
Lucas; Lukusiewicz; Lukachevitch; Lucashevich; Ivan
Date of Birth:
circa 1909
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Polish
Profession:
miner
Hometown(s):
Montreal, Quebec; Rouyn, Quebec
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1932
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-06-08
Unit:
13 Brigade
Final status:
KIA July 1938 at Ebro
Other:
Hello Canada!, page 43-44, notes that Lucasiewicz was imprisoned in the St Vincent de Paul Penetentiary for being involved in the Noranda strike. This was the 1934 zinc miners' strike in Rouyn-Noranda, in which the Communist-led Workers' Unity League organized a local of the Mine Workers' Union of Canada. The strikers held a picket line for 10 days before the local police, deputized "special constables," and the RCMP escorted in scabs and arrested 66 miners without bail, several of whom were sent to a federal penetentary for 2 years. For more information see Stephen Endicott's Raising the Workers' Flag and Evelyn Dumas's The Bitter Thirties in Quebec.
Sources:
Momryk; Petrou; Polik
