Winnipeg general strike?

The Winnipeg General Strike: Mayor of Winnipeg asked Ottawa for help: - “Federal government - Feared spread of strike to other cities - Sympathy strike in Vancouver on June 3rd - Feared breakdown of national railway system - Feared this was beginning of a revolution - Believed enemy alien socialists – perhaps Bolsheviks – behind strike - Prepared laws to deport revolutionaries without trial - Told postal employees to go back to work or lose jobs and pensions - Sent secret shipments of machine guns to Winnipeg - Sent reinforcements for North West Mounted Police and army - Violence began - War veterans and workers in support of and against strike organized mass parades and demonstrations http://lasalle.limestone.on.ca/classres/... ‘The Story’ tab: . . .

It was the start of the largest strike in Canadian history, and political leaders at all levels were quick to act. Parliament amended the Immigration Act so British-born immigrants could be deported, and expanded the definition of sedition. .

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. . Civic leaders and employers feared a Soviet revolution was brewing and scrambled to break the strike.

They formed the Citizens’ Committee of 1,000 and hired 2,000 ‘specials’ – a militia to replace striking police. The federal ministers of Labour and Justice travelled to Winnipeg to meet with the Citizens’ Committee but refused to meet with strikers. On June 17, ten strike leaders were arrested under the legislation that had been quickly passed in Parliament for that purpose.

Without their leadership, and with the violent intervention of the ‘specials’ and the North West Mounted Police, the Winnipeg General Strike came to a chaotic end after six weeks.

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