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Helen Armstrong (activist)
Canadian human rights activist (1875–1947)
Helen "Ma" Armstrong (née Jury; 1875–1947) was a Canadian human rights and labour activist, who took part in the 1919 Winnipeg general strike.[1]
Advocacy
Armstrong developed a reputation for herself as a radical activist even before the General Strike in 1919.
In 1917, she aided the Women's Labour League, which helped in "union organization, political advocacy, the education of women workers on…their own rights."[2] She had a strong belief in the equality of men and women and was adamant about empowering women to fight for themselves.
She stated in a letter to the editor of The Telegram in 1917: "Girls have got to learn to fight as men have had to do for the right to live, and we women of the Labor League are spending all our spare time in trying to get girls to organize as the master class have done to protect their own interests."[2] In 1918, she was a leader
