The Winnipeg General Strike

The strike of General Winnipeg in 1919 was the year of the most influential strike in Canadian history. The events of this year are still embarrassing to Canadian minds and continue to be one of the most meaningful and powerful effects of the workers protest movement and struggle to create labor union rights.

A large-scale strike by Winnipeg in 1919 can be regarded as the first step in the integration of Canadian democratic government and capitalist economic infrastructure. The strike began with the conflict between metalworkers and employers, which quickly became a "compassionate" general strike, with 30,000 workers departing May 15, 1919, which caused Winnipeg The city was paralyzed. The "institution" for the strike consists of the federal government, the government of Winnipeg, the business elite, and the media, and it has strengthened the striker by opinion poll and took strict measures to ultimately suppress the strike itself. The cumulative impact of the various behaviors taken by these different groups is fatal to the strike. People may want to know what motivation each of these groups is.

History of Manitoba: Young historian: General strike to suppress Winnipeg: maintain peace with paranoia?

A great feature of Winnipeg's general strike is a completely different concept that competitors have. As the 35,000 strikers saw (there were no statistics households in nearly 20% of Winnipeg's population in 1919), the strike was the right to collectively negotiate through the agents they chose. Winnipeg's employer and wealthy class, its "one thousand citizenship committee" strike against strikes, the mass media and other patriotic profit organizations, the same general strike is a planned revolutionary plan for overthrow It reached the peak of. Agencies also set up a Soviet system in Canada. There are many computational frauds in this picture, but such effective forecasts distort the reality - they continue to believe that they faced the revolution. A few months after the incident, the prosecutor and the judge of the strike trial provided several examples.