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Record W4386885973 · doi:10.1215/15476715-10581265

The Ballad of 411 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, BC

2023· article· en· W4386885973 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Tom Wayman

Bibliographic record

VenueLabor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDowntownLawParadeArt historyBELLAHistoryArtMedia studiesSociologyArchaeologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Its four stories still feature large windows,grey marble cladding at street leveland, above that, tan-colored brick. The structurecould be any downtown commercial buildingconstructed in 1912. Yet the place is a cenotaphwith an illegible inscription, is a union anthemdrowned out by traffic. The first fist hitsVic Midgley: pain explodes from his right ribsand before he can parry more, a punchslams into his jaw from the left.A constable has gunned down Albert Goodwin,evading the draft after he helped leadthe struggle for the eight-hour day at Trail's smelter.This while people still rememberhow some years before, the policeshot and killed Frank Rogers on picket dutyat the CPR yards. Midgley dodgesbut a swung chair legconnects with his face. In response toGoodwin's killing, the first civic general strikein Canada is underway this August afternoon.A fist plows into Midgley's stomach. He gaspsfor air, collapses forward. Throughout the buildingwindows are being smashed, records and filespulled from desks and cabinets and scatteredor tossed along with furniture onto the pavement.The strike is a protest, too, at four yearsof the pointless War to End All Wars in France.Once the streetcars stopped running,chamber of commerce membersorganized a mob of veterans to attackstrike supporters, directing them here tothe Trades and Labour Council's six-year-oldlabour temple, the largest west of Chicago. Midgley,Council secretary, has curled himself on the floor.A boot ploughs into his right side: twelve-, fourteen-,sixteen-hour work days. Another kick: subsistencewages. A rain of boots: no government charity—you find employment or starve. No safety standards.If injured on the job and can't work, your only recourseis sue the boss, as if you could afford that,let alone pay a doctor. Make him kiss the flag,someone shouts. The banner is slapped againstMidgley's face. Blood from his nose andthe sockets of his broken-off teeth stain the fabric.The building is lost to the Council in 1920but its song endures. Why should we who work,the lyrics proclaim, have no sayin how the wealth we create is spent?Why does democracy cease at the factory gate,the office door? Because of our jobs, the city livesanother day. Yet authority wants us invisible,productive, obedient. For now we are nothingto them. But we shall be free. We shallbe all.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.763
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.298
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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