SAINT-HYACINTHE, Quebec—More than 30 workers on strike against Hotel des Seigneurs viewed “I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived,” an exhibit of watercolors by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five, and discussed their fight for freedom after their weekly union meeting here March 10.

Adriana Stan, a university teaching assistant, and Katy LeRougetel, a factory worker, gave a brief presentation on the fight by the five revolutionaries, who were jailed in the U.S. in 1998 on frame-up charges, including conspiracy to commit espionage.

“It may seem like the case of these Cubans is far removed from our lives,” said Michel Trépanier, a union staff member, during the discussion. “In 1970, Michel Chartrand, a union militant in Quebec, was accused of conspiracy to commit sedition. He and four others were jailed for four months and then released when the charges were dropped. These were union leaders in Quebec to whom this happened.” Chartrand was charged under the War Measures Act by the Canadian government in response to a rise in labor and national struggles in Quebec at the time.

After browsing the exhibit some workers copied Guerrero’s prison address in order to write him.