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|place = [[Winnipeg]]
|date = May 15 – June 26, 1919
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| methods = [[Strike action|Strikes]], [[protests]], [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]]
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| side1 = Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council
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* Citizens' Committee of One Thousand
* [[Royal North-West Mounted Police]]
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* [[George Armstrong (Manitoba politician)|George Armstrong]]
* [[Roger Ernest Bray|Roger Bray]]
* [[Abraham Albert Heaps|Abraham Heaps]]
* [[William Ivens]]
* R.B. Russell
* [[John Queen]]
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* [[Arthur Meighen]]
* (Acting Minister of Justice)
* [[Gideon Robertson]]
* (Minister of Labour)
* Charles F. Gray
* (Mayor of Winnipeg)
* A. J. Andrews
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The '''Winnipeg general strike''' of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in [[History of Canada|Canadian history]]. For six weeks, May 15 to June 26, more than 30,000 strikers brought economic activity to a standstill in [[Winnipeg|Winnipeg, Manitoba]], which at the time was Canada's third largest city. In the short term, the strike ended in arrests, bloodshed and defeat, but in the long run it contributed to the development of a stronger labour movement and the tradition of social democratic politics in Canada.
== Causes of the strike ==
[[File:Pathé News No. 57 - (excerpt) (Winnipeg General Strike) (1919).webm|thumb|thumbtime=16|Newsreel footage of the Winnipeg general strike of 1919]]
There were many background causes for the strike, most of them related to the prevailing social inequalities and the impoverished condition of the city's working class. Wages were low, prices were rising, employment was unstable, immigrants faced discrimination, housing and health conditions were poor.
In addition, there was resentment of the enormous profits enjoyed by employers during the war. Soldiers returning from the war were determined to see improved social conditions and opportunities after their harrowing experiences overseas. Most workers did not have union representation, but many were influenced by the hope of achieving greater economic security through unions.<ref name= "Bumsted p. ">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=}}</ref>
Many workers were also influenced by socialist ideas voiced by local reformers, radicals and revolutionaries. These attracted greater interest, especially among the large population of immigrants from Eastern Europe, after the Russian Revolution of 1917. A meeting of western labour delegates in Calgary in March 1919 adopted numerous radical resolutions, including support for a five-day week and a six-hour day. They also called for the establishment of a new union centre, the [[One Big Union (Canada)|One Big Union]], to promote class solidarity by uniting workers from all trades and industries in one organization. The idea that the OBU instigated the general strike is misleading, as the OBU was not formed until June 1919. However, the "one big union" idea contributed to the atmosphere of unrest.<ref>James Naylor, "Standing Together," ''Canada's History'' (April–May 2019), pp. 22–24.</ref> Similar volatile conditions existed elsewhere in Canada, and in other countries around the world, at the end of [[World War I]], but the combination of circumstances in Winnipeg proved to be explosive.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925|last=Heron|first=Craig|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1998|location=Toronto}}</ref>
The most immediate cause of the strike involved support for collective bargaining in the metal trades and building trades, where workers were attempting to negotiate contracts through their trades councils. When the Metal Trades Council and the Building Trades Council had both failed to secure contracts with employers by the end of April, they went on strike, the building trades on May 1 and the metal trades on May 2. Shortly afterwards, the situation was discussed at meetings of the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council, the umbrella body for the city's unions. The Labour Council decided to call on their 12,000 affiliated members to vote on a proposal for a general strike .<ref>{{Cite book|title=Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike|last=Bercuson|first=David|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|year=1974|location=Montreal|pages=109–112}}</ref> On a smaller scale, this tactic had achieved success for striking city workers a year earlier in 1918.<ref>Bercuson, ''Confrontation at Winnipeg'', pp. 58–65.</ref> Preliminary results of the vote among the Labour Council's member unions were announced on May 13. The outcome showed overwhelming support for a general strike, 8,667 to 645.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Winnipeg 1919|last=Penner|first=Norman|publisher=James Lorimer and Company|year=1973|location=Toronto|pages=43–44}}</ref> Ernest Robinson, secretary of the Labour Council, issued a statement that "every organization but one has voted in favour of the general strike" and that "all public utilities will be tied-up in order to enforce the principle of collective bargaining".<ref name= "Bumsted p. 28">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=28}}</ref> A Strike Committee was established, with delegates elected by the city's unions. The leadership included both moderate trade unionists, such as James Winning, a bricklayer who was president of the Trades and Labour Council, and socialists such as [[Robert B. Russell|R.B. Russell]], a machinist who favoured the OBU.
==The 1919 general strike==
===Organization===
At 11:00 a.m. on Thursday May 15, 1919, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg went on strike. Somewhere around 30,000 workers in the public and private sectors walked off their jobs, and the city experienced a sudden cessation of many normal activities. The Strike Committee requested the police force, who had voted in favour of the strike, to remain on duty. Workers at the city waterworks also remained on the job to provide service at reduced pressure. Union membership had increased substantially during the spring of 1919, but most of the people who came out in support of the general strike were not union members. For instance, the first to leave work, at 7:00 a.m., were the telephone operators, the so-called "hello girls" at the city telephone exchanges, who were not at this time union members. Also on the first day of the strike, the major organizations of returned soldiers announced their support and were active throughout the six weeks of the strike.<ref name= "Bumsted p. 29">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=29}}</ref>
In the early days of the strike, one historian has written, "The atmosphere was almost festive, the belief in ultimate victory strong."<ref>Bercuson, ''Confrontation at Winnipeg'', p. 116.</ref> Participants assembled in city parks to listen to speakers report on the progress of the strike and discuss the many related social reform issues of the time. To ensure that strikers were kept informed of developments, the Strike Committee also published a daily ''Strike Bulletin''. This newspaper urged the strikers to remain peaceable as well as idle: “The only thing the workers have to do to win this strike is to do nothing. Just eat, sleep, play, love, laugh, and look at the sun. . . . Our fight consists of doing no fighting.”.<ref>Quoted by Kenneth McNaught, ''A Prophet in Politics: A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959), p. 121.</ref>
Women leaders played an important part in building solidarity among the strikers. Experienced organizers such as [[Helen Armstrong (activist)|Helen "Ma" Armstrong]], one of two women on the Strike Committee, encouraged young working women to join the strike and often spoke on street corners and at public meetings. The Women's Labour League raised money to help women workers pay rent. They also set up a kitchen where hundreds of meals were served every day.<ref name= "Kelly p.20-26">{{harvnb|Kelly|2016|pp=20–26}}</ref> On June 12 a "ladies day" was held at Victoria Park, where women occupied seats of honour to cheer a speech by J.S. Woodsworth promoting the emancipation of women and the equality of the sexes.<ref>Mary Horodyski, "Women and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919," ''Manitoba History'' 11 (Spring 1986), pp. 28–37.</ref> An emerging working-class activist named Edith Hancox, who became a notable defender of the city’s dispossessed during the 1920s, is the only woman reported as a speaker at the huge outdoor gatherings at Victoria Park.<ref>David Thompson, “More Sugar, Less Salt: Edith Hancox and the Passionate Mobilization of the Dispossessed, 1919–1928,” ''Labour/Le Travail'' 85 (Spring 2020), pp. 127–163. </ref>
Negotiations between members of the Strike Committee, city council and local businesses produced an arrangement to continue milk and bread deliveries. To make it clear that the delivery men were not strikebreakers, a small poster was printed for display on their wagons reading “PERMITTED BY AUTHORITY OF STRIKE COMMITTEE.” Although the cards were suggested by management, they were also attacked as evidence that the Strike Committee was taking control of the city.<ref>Penner, ''Winnipeg 1919'', pp. 48–52.</ref>
===Opposition===
[[File:Anti-Strike Banner used in Loyalist Veterans Parade during the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.jpg|thumb|alt=B&W photo of a protest banner|Anti-strike banner used in loyalist veterans parade during the 1919 Winnipeg general strike]]
[[File:Winnipeg Telegram Front Cover June 9 1919.png|thumb|alt=B&W Newspaper front cover|[[Winnipeg Telegram]] Front Cover June 9, 1919]]
In a city divided on class lines, opposition to the strike was led by a group of local businessmen and professionals who described themselves as the Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand. From their headquarters in the Board of Trade building, they encouraged employers not to give in to the strikers and attempted to stir up resentment of “alien” immigrants, who, they charged, were the principal leaders of the strike. They also put pressure on governments to take action against the strike. They published a newspaper, ''The Winnipeg Citizen'', that claimed that “the so-called general strike is in reality revolution – or a daring attempt to overthrow the present industrial and governmental system.”<ref>D.C. Masters, ''The Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950), p. 66.</ref>
At the end of the first week of the strike, two federal cabinet ministers arrived in Winnipeg to assess the situation, the acting Minister of Justice Arthur Meighen and the Minister of Labour Gideon Robertson. They refused to meet with the Strike Committee, but consulted with the Citizens’ Committee, who greatly influenced their conclusions. Meighen issued a statement that the strike was "a cloak for something far deeper—an effort to 'overturn' the proper authority". Robertson reported back to Ottawa that “the motive behind this strike undoubtedly was the overthrow of Constitutional Government.”<ref name= "Bumsted p. 37-39">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=37–39}}</ref> They warned striking postal workers, who were federal employees, to return to work or lose their jobs. At this time, they also authorized the local government to use the armed forces and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police as needed. In preparation for arrests, at the beginning of June, and on the advice of one of the leaders of the Citizens' Committee, A.J. Andrews, the federal government amended the Immigration Act to allow for the deportation without trial of any British citizens not born in Canada who were charged with seditious activity.<ref name= "Bumsted p. 47-48">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=47–48}}</ref>
The municipal government also took action. As large numbers of veterans were holding marches in the streets in support of the strike, ''Winnipeg General Strike'', p. 90.</ref> On June 9 the city also dismissed almost the entire police force for refusing to sign a pledge promising to neither belong to a union nor participate in a sympathetic strike. With the assistance of the Citizens’ Committee, the city police were replaced with a large body of untrained but better paid special constables who patrolled the streets with clubs. Within hours, one of the special constables, a much-medalled World War I veteran [[Frederick Coppins]], charged into a gathering of strikers and was dragged off his horse and severely pummelled. This led to claims that he was attacked by "enemy ruffians."<ref name= "Bumsted p. 50-52">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=50–52}}</ref>
The local newspapers, the ''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]'' and ''[[Winnipeg Tribune]]'', had lost the majority of their employees due to the strike, but once they were able to resume publication, they took a decidedly anti-strike stance. . These anti-strike views influenced the opinions of some Winnipeg residents and contributed to the deepening atmosphere of crisis.<ref>Mitchell, Tom and James Naylor, "The Prairies: In the Eye of the Storm." In ''The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) pp. 176–180.</ref>
A plan to offer a modified form of collective bargaining to the Metal Trades Council was in the works at the middle of the month, but any efforts at compromise were ended by a series of arrests on charges of seditious conspiracy. In the early morning hours of June 17, the RNWMP apprehended several prominent leaders of the strike, including [[George Armstrong (Manitoba politician)|George Armstrong]], [[Roger Ernest Bray|Roger Bray]], [[Abraham Albert Heaps|Abraham Heaps]], [[William Ivens]], R.B. Russell and [[John Queen]]. In addition, [[William Arthur Pritchard]], a Vancouver union organizer who was returning from Winnipeg, was arrested in Calgary. R. J. Johns, of Winnipeg, was in Montreal and not arrested at this time. With the exception of Armstrong,They rocked the car from side to side but were unable to tip it over entirely. They smashed the windows, climbed inside, slashed the seats and set it on fire. who was Canadian-born, they were all British immigrants. Several foreign-born socialists, including Sam Blumenberg, Max Charitonoff and Solomon Almazoff were also arrested, as was Oscar Schoppelrei, an American-born Canadian war veteran of German ethnic origin.<ref>Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, ''When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp, 163–166. </ref>[[File:RNWMP operations in Winnipeg General Strike, 1919.jpg|thumb|[[North-West Mounted Police|RNWMP]] action in Winnipeg during the strike]]
===Bloody Saturday===
[[File:Winnipeg general strike turns into a riot E004666107-v8.jpg|thumb|alt=B&W people on the street|Winnipeg general strike turns into a riot]]
[[File:Winnipeg general strike turns into a riot E004666106-v8.jpg|thumb|alt=B&W people on the street|Crowds on the street]]
A streetcar operated by a strikebreaker attempted to travel south on Main Street towards Portage Avenue but was stopped and tipped off the tracks and briefly set on fire.<ref name="Masters 83, 107">Masters, ''Winnipeg General Strike'', pp. 83–88, 107–108.</ref>
After the Mayor read the Riot Act,
When the ''Strike Bulletin'' published its account of the events of Bloody Saturday, the editors, [[J. S. Woodsworth|J.S. Woodsworth]] and [[Fred Dixon (politician)|Fred J. Dixon]], were arrested and charged with seditious libel. They had published articles with headings such as “Kaiserism in Canada” and “The British Way.” The charges against Woodsworth included his quotation of a verse from Isaiah: “[[Isaiah 10|Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees]].” Further publication of the newspaper was suppressed.<ref>Penner, ''Winnipeg 1919'', pp. 207–215.</ref>
These events broke the confidence of the Strike Committee, and on June 25, they announced the end of the strike for 11:00 a.m. the next day. After six weeks, workers drifted back to their jobs, but many were blacklisted or otherwise punished for participating in the strike.<ref name= "Bumsted p. 58">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=58}}</ref>
Within a short time, the mounted squad, joined by a number of special constables — hired after Winnipeg officers were fired for refusing to denounce the strike — lined up across the width of Main Street.
They loped into the crowd, knocking people down, forcing them off the street and onto sidewalks, and battered them with clubs if they didn’t move, according to multiple archival and contemporary reports.Within a short time, the mounted squad, joined by a number of special constables — hired after Winnipeg officers were fired for refusing to denounce the strike — lined up across the width of Main Street.
They loped into the crowd, knocking people down, forcing them off the street and onto sidewalks, and battered them with clubs if they didn’t move, according to multiple archival and contemporary reports.
===Role in the Labour Revolt===
In May and June 1919 general strikes broke out in as many as thirty other cities, from Amherst, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. Some of these strikes were protests against local conditions, some were in solidarity with Winnipeg, and others involved both causes.<ref>Naylor, "Standing Together," pp. 26–27.</ref>
==Aftermath==
==="State trials" and deportations===
Eight of the strike leaders were brought to trial on charges of seditious conspiracy. The evidence against them focused less on their actions than on their socialist ideas, which were seen as the root cause of the unrest that led to the general strike. Under arrangements accepted (and paid for) by the federal government, the prosecution was conducted by Andrews and other “legal gentlemen” who were active in the Citizens’ Committee during the strike.<ref>Tom Mitchell, "'Legal Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government': The Canadian State, the Citizens' Committee of 1000, and Winnipeg's Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919–1920," ''Labour/Le Travail'', 53 (Spring 2004), pp. 9–46.</ref>
Seven of the accused (Armstrong, Bray, Ivens, Johns, Pritchard, Russell and Queen) were found guilty by the largely rural juries selected for the trials. Most were sentenced to one-year sentences, but Russell was sentenced to two years and Bray, who was convicted on a lesser charge, was sentenced to six months. (As well, John Farnell, who had filled the void left in the leadership of pro-strike returned soldiers after Bray's arrest, was sentenced to nine months in prison. He was released three months early, due to his wife's illness.)<ref>Edmonton Bulletin, August 5, 1920</ref>
Heaps conducted his own defence. He was acquitted on all charges. Dixon, who was charged with seditious libel, delivered a strong defence of the right to free speech as an essential element of the British tradition. After forty hours of deliberation, the largely urban jury acquitted him. This result caused the prosecution to abandon the similar charges against Woodsworth.<ref name="Bumsted p. 66-69">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=66–69}}</ref>
In the case of the “foreigners” arrested on June 17, there were no criminal proceedings. Almazoff and Charitonoff appealed successfully against deportation. Blumenberg and Schoppelrei were ordered deported on technical grounds related to their original entry into the country.<ref>Kramer and Mitchell, ''When the State Trembled'', pp. 283–287.</ref> Blumenberg found his feet in the U.S., organizing workers in the Duluth area and even running for municipal office there on the socialist platform. <ref>Masters, The Winnipeg General Strike, p. 150</ref>
===Political impact===
A provincial royal commission headed by H.A. Robson investigated the strike. The report deplored sympathetic strikes but concluded that the Winnipeg strike was not a criminal conspiracy by foreigners and stated that "if Capital does not provide enough to assure Labour a contented existence ... then the Government might find it necessary to step in and let the state do these things at the expense of Capital."<ref>Justice H. A. Robson's report, quoted in {{cite book
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The impact of the strike was evident in subsequent elections. Labour had elected some representatives prior to the strike but the number significantly increased afterwards at all three levels of government.
While awaiting trial, Queen was re-elected to the Winnipeg City council.<ref>Edmonton Bulletin, Nov. 29, 1919</ref> While serving out their sentences in prison, Armstrong, Ivens and Queen were elected to the Manitoba legislature. Queen later served seven terms as mayor of Winnipeg.<ref>Bumsted, ''Dictionary of Manitoba Biography'', pp. 9, 120–121, 205.</ref>
Woodsworth was elected as a Labour Member of Parliament from Winnipeg in 1921 and was repeatedly re-elected until his death in 1942. In 1932 he helped found and became leader of the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]], a forerunner of the [[New Democratic Party]]. That party was elected to provincial government in Saskatchewan in 1944 and in Manitoba in 1969.<ref>{{cite book|last=Young|first=Walter D.|url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpartyna0000youn|title=The anatomy of a party: the national CCF 1932–61|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1969|location=Toronto|page=[https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpartyna0000youn/page/31 31]|url-access=registration}}</ref> Heaps was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Winnipeg North in 1925 and re-elected until 1940.<ref name="Bumsted p. 107-108">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=107–108}}</ref>
===Strike's impact on unions===
Organized labour built on the legacy of the strike to strengthen the union movement and to pursue formal collective bargaining rights. The One Big Union flourished briefly, achieving its greatest popularity in 1920. This was followed by the rise of new industrial unions in the 1930s. The renewed poverty and insecurity of the Great Depression led to a long period of labour militancy across Canada in the 1940s, when union membership increased substantially. By the end of that decade, a formal industrial relations regime was established in Canadian law that provided some security for unions and their members but also threatened to limit the scope of their activity.<ref>Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker, ''Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900–1948'' (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 302–305.</ref>
==Historiography==
Discussions of the Winnipeg general strike often start from the contemporary debate about whether it was a conspiracy to overthrow the government or a fight for union recognition and a living wage. Given the scale of the general strike and its political impact, however, it was difficult to consider it only an ordinary collective bargaining dispute.<ref>Kenneth McNaught and David J. Bercuson, ''The Winnipeg Strike: 1919'' (Toronto: Longman Canada, 1974), pp. 99–124.</ref> This led some historians to study local labour relations in detail <ref>Bercuson, ''Confrontation at Winnipeg''.</ref> while others examined the nature of labour reform and radical activism in western Canada.<ref>A. Ross McCormack, ''Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899–1919'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977).</ref> Churches, immigrants, women, soldiers, and municipal politics have also been the subject of study.<ref name="Bumsted p. "/> The “red scare” promoted by business and government spokesmen attracted attention, as did the legal manoeuvres that led to the arrest and conviction of prominent strike supporters on charges of sedition.<ref>Kramer and Mitchell, ''When the State Trembled.''</ref>
While some historians regarded the strike as a western labour revolt rooted in unique conditions in western Canada, others have pointed to widespread labour unrest across Canada, both in 1919 itself <ref>Gregory S. Kealey, "1919: The Canadian Labour Revolt," ''Labour/Le Travail'', 13 (Spring 1984), pp. 11–44.</ref> and also during the years from 1917 to 1925.<ref>Heron, ''The Workers' Revolt in Canada.''</ref> Recent accounts of the strike have also noted that most strikers were not union members, suggesting that the events might be described as an urban rebellion against the failings of the capitalist social order as it existed at the end of World War I.<ref>Graphic History Collective and David Lester, ''1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019).</ref> [[File:Grève générale Winnipeg 1919.jpg|thumb|Partially overturned streetcar during the strike]]
==Commemorations in popular culture==
Shortly after the strike, two novels, [[Ralph Connor]]’s ''To Him that Hath'' (Toronto, 1921) and [[Douglas Durkin]]'s ''The Magpie'' (Toronto, 1923), explored some of the labour and social themes raised by the strike. ''Fox'', a 1991 novel by author [[Margaret Sweatman]], is a work of historical fiction about the events leading up to and following the strike. In 2019, [[Fernwood Publishing]] released ''Papergirl,'' a young adult novel by Melinda McCracken about a girl who distributes the strikers' newspaper.<ref>{{cite web |title=Papergirl |url=https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/papergirl |website=Fernwood Publishing |access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref>
Among remembrances of this event in Canadian popular culture is the song "In Winnipeg" by musician [[Mike Ford (musician)|Mike Ford]], included in the album ''Canada Needs You Volume Two''.
In 2005, Danny Schur created a musical called ''[[Strike! (musical)|Strike!]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.strikemusical.com|title=Strike: The Musical}}</ref> based on the event. A film version called [[Stand! (2019 film)|''Stand!'']] was scheduled for release in 2019 and premiered on September 10, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldwideentertainmenttv.com/stand-movie-musical-at-tiff-press-release/|title=STAND! MOVIE MUSICAL DURING TIFF – PRESS RELEASE}}</ref>
Many of the famous photographs of the strike were by Winnipeg photographer [[L. B. Foote]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
In Winnipeg, there are several memorials and monuments commemorating the strike.<ref>"Tipping Point" and "Taking to the Streets," ''Canada's History'' (April–May 2019), pp. 31, 50–51.</ref>
==See also==
{{Commons category|Winnipeg General Strike}}
* [[1918 Vancouver general strike]]
* [[Seattle General Strike|1919 Seattle General Strike]]
* [[On-to-Ottawa Trek|1935 On-to-Ottawa Trek]]
==Bibliography==
===Notes===
{{reflist}}
===References===
* {{cite book |last=Bumsted|first=J. M. | title = The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History|year=1994| publisher = Watson & Dwyer| isbn= 9780920486405 }} <small>- Total pages: 140 </small>
* {{cite web |last=Kelly|first=Paula |date=January 9, 2016|url = https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/women/looking-for-mrs-armstrong|title =Looking for Mrs. Armstrong|publisher = [[Canada's History]] vol 82 No. 3| access-date = July 4, 2019 }}
==Further reading==
* Balawyder, Aloysius, ed. ''The Winnipeg General Strike'' (Copp-Clark Publishing, 1967)
* Bercuson, David. ''Confrontation at Winnipeg: labour, industrial relations, and the general strike'' (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1990)
*Bumsted, J.M. ''The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History'' (Winnipeg: Watson & Dyer, 1994)
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IyZ389DiOlgC |title=Dictionary of Manitoba Biography |last=Bumsted |first=J.M. |year=1999 |isbn=0887551696 |publisher=University of Manitoba Press |access-date=December 31, 2012 }}
*Epp-Koop, Stephan. ''We're Going to Run this City: Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike'' (University of Manitoba Press, 2015)
* Friesen, Gerald. "'Yours In Revolt': The Socialist Party of Canada and the Western Canadian Labour Movement." ''Labour/Le Travail'' (1976) 1 pp. 139–157. [http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/viewFile/2319/2727 online]
*Graphic History Collective and David Lester, ''1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Between the Lines, 2019)
* Heron, Craig, ed., ''The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925'' (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
*Kealey, Gregory S. "1919: The Canadian Labour Revolt," ''Labour / Le Travail,'' 13 (Spring 1984), pp. 11–44
*Kelly, Paula, [https://canadashistory.partica.online/canadas-history/the-beaver-jun-jul-2002/flipbook/20/ "Looking for Mrs. Armstrong,"] ''Canada's History,'' vol. 82, no. 3 (June–July 2002), pp. 20–26.
*Kramer, Reinhold, and Tom Mitchell. ''When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike'' (U of Toronto Press, 2010)
* Masters, Donald Campbell. ''The Winnipeg General Strike'' (University of Toronto Press, 1950)
*McNaught, Kenneth and David J. Bercuson, ''The Winnipeg Strike: 1919'' (Longman Canada, 1974)
* Korneski, Kurt. "Prairie Fire: The Winnipeg General Strike," ''Labour / Le Travail,'' 45 (Spring 2000), pp. 259–266. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25149057 In JSTOR]
*Penner, Norman, ed. ''Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (James Lorimer and Company, 1973)
* Stace, Trevor. "Remembering and Forgetting Winnipeg: Making History on the Strike of 1919." ''Constellations'' (2014) 5#1 on the historiography of 1919; [https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/constellations/article/viewFile/21381/16125 online].
* Wiseman, Nelson. ''Social Democracy in Manitoba: a History of the CCF-NDP'' (U. of Manitoba Press, 1983)
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The '''Winnipeg general strike''' of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in [[History of Canada|Canadian history]]. For six weeks, May 15 to June 26, more than 30,000 strikers brought economic activity to a standstill in [[Winnipeg|Winnipeg, Manitoba]], which at the time was Canada's third largest city. In the short term, the strike ended in arrests, bloodshed and defeat, but in the long run it contributed to the development of a stronger labour movement and the tradition of social democratic politics in Canada.
== Causes of the strike ==
[[File:Pathé News No. 57 - (excerpt) (Winnipeg General Strike) (1919).webm|thumb|thumbtime=16|Newsreel footage of the Winnipeg general strike of 1919]]
There were many background causes for the strike, most of them related to the prevailing social inequalities and the impoverished condition of the city's working class. Wages were low, prices were rising, employment was unstable, immigrants faced discrimination, housing and health conditions were poor.
In addition, there was resentment of the enormous profits enjoyed by employers during the war. Soldiers returning from the war were determined to see improved social conditions and opportunities after their harrowing experiences overseas. Most workers did not have union representation, but many were influenced by the hope of achieving greater economic security through unions.<ref name= "Bumsted p. ">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=}}</ref>
Many workers were also influenced by socialist ideas voiced by local reformers, radicals and revolutionaries. These attracted greater interest, especially among the large population of immigrants from Eastern Europe, after the Russian Revolution of 1917. A meeting of western labour delegates in Calgary in March 1919 adopted numerous radical resolutions, including support for a five-day week and a six-hour day. They also called for the establishment of a new union centre, the [[One Big Union (Canada)|One Big Union]], to promote class solidarity by uniting workers from all trades and industries in one organization. The idea that the OBU instigated the general strike is misleading, as the OBU was not formed until June 1919. However, the "one big union" idea contributed to the atmosphere of unrest.<ref>James Naylor, "Standing Together," ''Canada's History'' (April–May 2019), pp. 22–24.</ref> Similar volatile conditions existed elsewhere in Canada, and in other countries around the world, at the end of [[World War I]], but the combination of circumstances in Winnipeg proved to be explosive.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925|last=Heron|first=Craig|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1998|location=Toronto}}</ref>
The most immediate cause of the strike involved support for collective bargaining in the metal trades and building trades, where workers were attempting to negotiate contracts through their trades councils. When the Metal Trades Council and the Building Trades Council had both failed to secure contracts with employers by the end of April, they went on strike, the building trades on May 1 and the metal trades on May 2. Shortly afterwards, the situation was discussed at meetings of the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council, the umbrella body for the city's unions. The Labour Council decided to call on their 12,000 affiliated members to vote on a proposal for a general strike .<ref>{{Cite book|title=Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike|last=Bercuson|first=David|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|year=1974|location=Montreal|pages=109–112}}</ref> On a smaller scale, this tactic had achieved success for striking city workers a year earlier in 1918.<ref>Bercuson, ''Confrontation at Winnipeg'', pp. 58–65.</ref> Preliminary results of the vote among the Labour Council's member unions were announced on May 13. The outcome showed overwhelming support for a general strike, 8,667 to 645.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Winnipeg 1919|last=Penner|first=Norman|publisher=James Lorimer and Company|year=1973|location=Toronto|pages=43–44}}</ref> Ernest Robinson, secretary of the Labour Council, issued a statement that "every organization but one has voted in favour of the general strike" and that "all public utilities will be tied-up in order to enforce the principle of collective bargaining".<ref name= "Bumsted p. 28">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=28}}</ref> A Strike Committee was established, with delegates elected by the city's unions. The leadership included both moderate trade unionists, such as James Winning, a bricklayer who was president of the Trades and Labour Council, and socialists such as [[Robert B. Russell|R.B. Russell]], a machinist who favoured the OBU.
==The 1919 general strike==
===Organization===
At 11:00 a.m. on Thursday May 15, 1919, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg went on strike. Somewhere around 30,000 workers in the public and private sectors walked off their jobs, and the city experienced a sudden cessation of many normal activities. The Strike Committee requested the police force, who had voted in favour of the strike, to remain on duty. Workers at the city waterworks also remained on the job to provide service at reduced pressure. Union membership had increased substantially during the spring of 1919, but most of the people who came out in support of the general strike were not union members. For instance, the first to leave work, at 7:00 a.m., were the telephone operators, the so-called "hello girls" at the city telephone exchanges, who were not at this time union members. Also on the first day of the strike, the major organizations of returned soldiers announced their support and were active throughout the six weeks of the strike.<ref name= "Bumsted p. 29">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=29}}</ref>
In the early days of the strike, one historian has written, "The atmosphere was almost festive, the belief in ultimate victory strong."<ref>Bercuson, ''Confrontation at Winnipeg'', p. 116.</ref> Participants assembled in city parks to listen to speakers report on the progress of the strike and discuss the many related social reform issues of the time. To ensure that strikers were kept informed of developments, the Strike Committee also published a daily ''Strike Bulletin''. This newspaper urged the strikers to remain peaceable as well as idle: “The only thing the workers have to do to win this strike is to do nothing. Just eat, sleep, play, love, laugh, and look at the sun. . . . Our fight consists of doing no fighting.”.<ref>Quoted by Kenneth McNaught, ''A Prophet in Politics: A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959), p. 121.</ref>
Women leaders played an important part in building solidarity among the strikers. Experienced organizers such as [[Helen Armstrong (activist)|Helen "Ma" Armstrong]], one of two women on the Strike Committee, encouraged young working women to join the strike and often spoke on street corners and at public meetings. The Women's Labour League raised money to help women workers pay rent. They also set up a kitchen where hundreds of meals were served every day.<ref name= "Kelly p.20-26">{{harvnb|Kelly|2016|pp=20–26}}</ref> On June 12 a "ladies day" was held at Victoria Park, where women occupied seats of honour to cheer a speech by J.S. Woodsworth promoting the emancipation of women and the equality of the sexes.<ref>Mary Horodyski, "Women and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919," ''Manitoba History'' 11 (Spring 1986), pp. 28–37.</ref> An emerging working-class activist named Edith Hancox, who became a notable defender of the city’s dispossessed during the 1920s, is the only woman reported as a speaker at the huge outdoor gatherings at Victoria Park.<ref>David Thompson, “More Sugar, Less Salt: Edith Hancox and the Passionate Mobilization of the Dispossessed, 1919–1928,” ''Labour/Le Travail'' 85 (Spring 2020), pp. 127–163. </ref>
Negotiations between members of the Strike Committee, city council and local businesses produced an arrangement to continue milk and bread deliveries. To make it clear that the delivery men were not strikebreakers, a small poster was printed for display on their wagons reading “PERMITTED BY AUTHORITY OF STRIKE COMMITTEE.” Although the cards were suggested by management, they were also attacked as evidence that the Strike Committee was taking control of the city.<ref>Penner, ''Winnipeg 1919'', pp. 48–52.</ref>
===Opposition===
[[File:Anti-Strike Banner used in Loyalist Veterans Parade during the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.jpg|thumb|alt=B&W photo of a protest banner|Anti-strike banner used in loyalist veterans parade during the 1919 Winnipeg general strike]]
[[File:Winnipeg Telegram Front Cover June 9 1919.png|thumb|alt=B&W Newspaper front cover|[[Winnipeg Telegram]] Front Cover June 9, 1919]]
In a city divided on class lines, opposition to the strike was led by a group of local businessmen and professionals who described themselves as the Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand. From their headquarters in the Board of Trade building, they encouraged employers not to give in to the strikers and attempted to stir up resentment of “alien” immigrants, who, they charged, were the principal leaders of the strike. They also put pressure on governments to take action against the strike. They published a newspaper, ''The Winnipeg Citizen'', that claimed that “the so-called general strike is in reality revolution – or a daring attempt to overthrow the present industrial and governmental system.”<ref>D.C. Masters, ''The Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950), p. 66.</ref>
At the end of the first week of the strike, two federal cabinet ministers arrived in Winnipeg to assess the situation, the acting Minister of Justice Arthur Meighen and the Minister of Labour Gideon Robertson. They refused to meet with the Strike Committee, but consulted with the Citizens’ Committee, who greatly influenced their conclusions. Meighen issued a statement that the strike was "a cloak for something far deeper—an effort to 'overturn' the proper authority". Robertson reported back to Ottawa that “the motive behind this strike undoubtedly was the overthrow of Constitutional Government.”<ref name= "Bumsted p. 37-39">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=37–39}}</ref> They warned striking postal workers, who were federal employees, to return to work or lose their jobs. At this time, they also authorized the local government to use the armed forces and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police as needed. In preparation for arrests, at the beginning of June, and on the advice of one of the leaders of the Citizens' Committee, A.J. Andrews, the federal government amended the Immigration Act to allow for the deportation without trial of any British citizens not born in Canada who were charged with seditious activity.<ref name= "Bumsted p. 47-48">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=47–48}}</ref>
The municipal government also took action. As large numbers of veterans were holding marches in the streets in support of the strike, ''Winnipeg General Strike'', p. 90.</ref> On June 9 the city also dismissed almost the entire police force for refusing to sign a pledge promising to neither belong to a union nor participate in a sympathetic strike. With the assistance of the Citizens’ Committee, the city police were replaced with a large body of untrained but better paid special constables who patrolled the streets with clubs. Within hours, one of the special constables, a much-medalled World War I veteran [[Frederick Coppins]], charged into a gathering of strikers and was dragged off his horse and severely pummelled. This led to claims that he was attacked by "enemy ruffians."<ref name= "Bumsted p. 50-52">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=50–52}}</ref>
The local newspapers, the ''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]'' and ''[[Winnipeg Tribune]]'', had lost the majority of their employees due to the strike, but once they were able to resume publication, they took a decidedly anti-strike stance. . These anti-strike views influenced the opinions of some Winnipeg residents and contributed to the deepening atmosphere of crisis.<ref>Mitchell, Tom and James Naylor, "The Prairies: In the Eye of the Storm." In ''The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) pp. 176–180.</ref>
A plan to offer a modified form of collective bargaining to the Metal Trades Council was in the works at the middle of the month, but any efforts at compromise were ended by a series of arrests on charges of seditious conspiracy. In the early morning hours of June 17, the RNWMP apprehended several prominent leaders of the strike, including [[George Armstrong (Manitoba politician)|George Armstrong]], [[Roger Ernest Bray|Roger Bray]], [[Abraham Albert Heaps|Abraham Heaps]], [[William Ivens]], R.B. Russell and [[John Queen]]. In addition, [[William Arthur Pritchard]], a Vancouver union organizer who was returning from Winnipeg, was arrested in Calgary. R. J. Johns, of Winnipeg, was in Montreal and not arrested at this time. With the exception of Armstrong,They rocked the car from side to side but were unable to tip it over entirely. They smashed the windows, climbed inside, slashed the seats and set it on fire. who was Canadian-born, they were all British immigrants. Several foreign-born socialists, including Sam Blumenberg, Max Charitonoff and Solomon Almazoff were also arrested, as was Oscar Schoppelrei, an American-born Canadian war veteran of German ethnic origin.<ref>Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, ''When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp, 163–166. </ref>[[File:RNWMP operations in Winnipeg General Strike, 1919.jpg|thumb|[[North-West Mounted Police|RNWMP]] action in Winnipeg during the strike]]
===Bloody Saturday===
Two bullets went through the legs of Steve Szczerbanowicz, who died two days later as a result of gangrene.
The police continued their charge, circling the block containing city hall.
From William, they turned onto King Street behind city hall and then up the other side along Market Avenue, which no longer exists on that side of Main.
Arriving back at Main Street, they fired again into the area around the smouldering streetcar.
===Role in the Labour Revolt===
In May and June 1919 general strikes broke out in as many as thirty other cities, from Amherst, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. Some of these strikes were protests against local conditions, some were in solidarity with Winnipeg, and others involved both causes.<ref>Naylor, "Standing Together," pp. 26–27.</ref>
==Aftermath==
==="State trials" and deportations===
Eight of the strike leaders were brought to trial on charges of seditious conspiracy. The evidence against them focused less on their actions than on their socialist ideas, which were seen as the root cause of the unrest that led to the general strike. Under arrangements accepted (and paid for) by the federal government, the prosecution was conducted by Andrews and other “legal gentlemen” who were active in the Citizens’ Committee during the strike.<ref>Tom Mitchell, "'Legal Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government': The Canadian State, the Citizens' Committee of 1000, and Winnipeg's Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919–1920," ''Labour/Le Travail'', 53 (Spring 2004), pp. 9–46.</ref>
Seven of the accused (Armstrong, Bray, Ivens, Johns, Pritchard, Russell and Queen) were found guilty by the largely rural juries selected for the trials. Most were sentenced to one-year sentences, but Russell was sentenced to two years and Bray, who was convicted on a lesser charge, was sentenced to six months. (As well, John Farnell, who had filled the void left in the leadership of pro-strike returned soldiers after Bray's arrest, was sentenced to nine months in prison. He was released three months early, due to his wife's illness.)<ref>Edmonton Bulletin, August 5, 1920</ref>
Heaps conducted his own defence. He was acquitted on all charges. Dixon, who was charged with seditious libel, delivered a strong defence of the right to free speech as an essential element of the British tradition. After forty hours of deliberation, the largely urban jury acquitted him. This result caused the prosecution to abandon the similar charges against Woodsworth.<ref name="Bumsted p. 66-69">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=66–69}}</ref>
In the case of the “foreigners” arrested on June 17, there were no criminal proceedings. Almazoff and Charitonoff appealed successfully against deportation. Blumenberg and Schoppelrei were ordered deported on technical grounds related to their original entry into the country.<ref>Kramer and Mitchell, ''When the State Trembled'', pp. 283–287.</ref> Blumenberg found his feet in the U.S., organizing workers in the Duluth area and even running for municipal office there on the socialist platform. <ref>Masters, The Winnipeg General Strike, p. 150</ref>
===Political impact===
A provincial royal commission headed by H.A. Robson investigated the strike. The report deplored sympathetic strikes but concluded that the Winnipeg strike was not a criminal conspiracy by foreigners and stated that "if Capital does not provide enough to assure Labour a contented existence ... then the Government might find it necessary to step in and let the state do these things at the expense of Capital."<ref>Justice H. A. Robson's report, quoted in {{cite book
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The impact of the strike was evident in subsequent elections. Labour had elected some representatives prior to the strike but the number significantly increased afterwards at all three levels of government.
While awaiting trial, Queen was re-elected to the Winnipeg City council.<ref>Edmonton Bulletin, Nov. 29, 1919</ref> While serving out their sentences in prison, Armstrong, Ivens and Queen were elected to the Manitoba legislature. Queen later served seven terms as mayor of Winnipeg.<ref>Bumsted, ''Dictionary of Manitoba Biography'', pp. 9, 120–121, 205.</ref>
Woodsworth was elected as a Labour Member of Parliament from Winnipeg in 1921 and was repeatedly re-elected until his death in 1942. In 1932 he helped found and became leader of the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]], a forerunner of the [[New Democratic Party]]. That party was elected to provincial government in Saskatchewan in 1944 and in Manitoba in 1969.<ref>{{cite book|last=Young|first=Walter D.|url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpartyna0000youn|title=The anatomy of a party: the national CCF 1932–61|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1969|location=Toronto|page=[https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpartyna0000youn/page/31 31]|url-access=registration}}</ref> Heaps was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Winnipeg North in 1925 and re-elected until 1940.<ref name="Bumsted p. 107-108">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|pp=107–108}}</ref>
===Strike's impact on unions===
Organized labour built on the legacy of the strike to strengthen the union movement and to pursue formal collective bargaining rights. The One Big Union flourished briefly, achieving its greatest popularity in 1920. This was followed by the rise of new industrial unions in the 1930s. The renewed poverty and insecurity of the Great Depression led to a long period of labour militancy across Canada in the 1940s, when union membership increased substantially. By the end of that decade, a formal industrial relations regime was established in Canadian law that provided some security for unions and their members but also threatened to limit the scope of their activity.<ref>Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker, ''Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900–1948'' (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 302–305.</ref>
==Historiography==
Discussions of the Winnipeg general strike often start from the contemporary debate about whether it was a conspiracy to overthrow the government or a fight for union recognition and a living wage. Given the scale of the general strike and its political impact, however, it was difficult to consider it only an ordinary collective bargaining dispute.<ref>Kenneth McNaught and David J. Bercuson, ''The Winnipeg Strike: 1919'' (Toronto: Longman Canada, 1974), pp. 99–124.</ref> This led some historians to study local labour relations in detail <ref>Bercuson, ''Confrontation at Winnipeg''.</ref> while others examined the nature of labour reform and radical activism in western Canada.<ref>A. Ross McCormack, ''Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899–1919'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977).</ref> Churches, immigrants, women, soldiers, and municipal politics have also been the subject of study.<ref name="Bumsted p. "/> The “red scare” promoted by business and government spokesmen attracted attention, as did the legal manoeuvres that led to the arrest and conviction of prominent strike supporters on charges of sedition.<ref>Kramer and Mitchell, ''When the State Trembled.''</ref>
While some historians regarded the strike as a western labour revolt rooted in unique conditions in western Canada, others have pointed to widespread labour unrest across Canada, both in 1919 itself <ref>Gregory S. Kealey, "1919: The Canadian Labour Revolt," ''Labour/Le Travail'', 13 (Spring 1984), pp. 11–44.</ref> and also during the years from 1917 to 1925.<ref>Heron, ''The Workers' Revolt in Canada.''</ref> Recent accounts of the strike have also noted that most strikers were not union members, suggesting that the events might be described as an urban rebellion against the failings of the capitalist social order as it existed at the end of World War I.<ref>Graphic History Collective and David Lester, ''1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019).</ref> [[File:Grève générale Winnipeg 1919.jpg|thumb|Partially overturned streetcar during the strike]]
==Commemorations in popular culture==
Shortly after the strike, two novels, [[Ralph Connor]]’s ''To Him that Hath'' (Toronto, 1921) and [[Douglas Durkin]]'s ''The Magpie'' (Toronto, 1923), explored some of the labour and social themes raised by the strike. ''Fox'', a 1991 novel by author [[Margaret Sweatman]], is a work of historical fiction about the events leading up to and following the strike. In 2019, [[Fernwood Publishing]] released ''Papergirl,'' a young adult novel by Melinda McCracken about a girl who distributes the strikers' newspaper.<ref>{{cite web |title=Papergirl |url=https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/papergirl |website=Fernwood Publishing |access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref>
Among remembrances of this event in Canadian popular culture is the song "In Winnipeg" by musician [[Mike Ford (musician)|Mike Ford]], included in the album ''Canada Needs You Volume Two''.
In 2005, Danny Schur created a musical called ''[[Strike! (musical)|Strike!]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.strikemusical.com|title=Strike: The Musical}}</ref> based on the event. A film version called [[Stand! (2019 film)|''Stand!'']] was scheduled for release in 2019 and premiered on September 10, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldwideentertainmenttv.com/stand-movie-musical-at-tiff-press-release/|title=STAND! MOVIE MUSICAL DURING TIFF – PRESS RELEASE}}</ref>
Many of the famous photographs of the strike were by Winnipeg photographer [[L. B. Foote]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
In Winnipeg, there are several memorials and monuments commemorating the strike.<ref>"Tipping Point" and "Taking to the Streets," ''Canada's History'' (April–May 2019), pp. 31, 50–51.</ref>
==See also==
{{Commons category|Winnipeg General Strike}}
* [[1918 Vancouver general strike]]
* [[Seattle General Strike|1919 Seattle General Strike]]
* [[On-to-Ottawa Trek|1935 On-to-Ottawa Trek]]
==Bibliography==
===Notes===
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===References===
* {{cite book |last=Bumsted|first=J. M. | title = The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History|year=1994| publisher = Watson & Dwyer| isbn= 9780920486405 }} <small>- Total pages: 140 </small>
* {{cite web |last=Kelly|first=Paula |date=January 9, 2016|url = https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/women/looking-for-mrs-armstrong|title =Looking for Mrs. Armstrong|publisher = [[Canada's History]] vol 82 No. 3| access-date = July 4, 2019 }}
==Further reading==
* Balawyder, Aloysius, ed. ''The Winnipeg General Strike'' (Copp-Clark Publishing, 1967)
* Bercuson, David. ''Confrontation at Winnipeg: labour, industrial relations, and the general strike'' (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1990)
*Bumsted, J.M. ''The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History'' (Winnipeg: Watson & Dyer, 1994)
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IyZ389DiOlgC |title=Dictionary of Manitoba Biography |last=Bumsted |first=J.M. |year=1999 |isbn=0887551696 |publisher=University of Manitoba Press |access-date=December 31, 2012 }}
*Epp-Koop, Stephan. ''We're Going to Run this City: Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike'' (University of Manitoba Press, 2015)
* Friesen, Gerald. "'Yours In Revolt': The Socialist Party of Canada and the Western Canadian Labour Movement." ''Labour/Le Travail'' (1976) 1 pp. 139–157. [http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/viewFile/2319/2727 online]
*Graphic History Collective and David Lester, ''1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Between the Lines, 2019)
* Heron, Craig, ed., ''The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925'' (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
*Kealey, Gregory S. "1919: The Canadian Labour Revolt," ''Labour / Le Travail,'' 13 (Spring 1984), pp. 11–44
*Kelly, Paula, [https://canadashistory.partica.online/canadas-history/the-beaver-jun-jul-2002/flipbook/20/ "Looking for Mrs. Armstrong,"] ''Canada's History,'' vol. 82, no. 3 (June–July 2002), pp. 20–26.
*Kramer, Reinhold, and Tom Mitchell. ''When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike'' (U of Toronto Press, 2010)
* Masters, Donald Campbell. ''The Winnipeg General Strike'' (University of Toronto Press, 1950)
*McNaught, Kenneth and David J. Bercuson, ''The Winnipeg Strike: 1919'' (Longman Canada, 1974)
* Korneski, Kurt. "Prairie Fire: The Winnipeg General Strike," ''Labour / Le Travail,'' 45 (Spring 2000), pp. 259–266. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25149057 In JSTOR]
*Penner, Norman, ed. ''Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (James Lorimer and Company, 1973)
* Stace, Trevor. "Remembering and Forgetting Winnipeg: Making History on the Strike of 1919." ''Constellations'' (2014) 5#1 on the historiography of 1919; [https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/constellations/article/viewFile/21381/16125 online].
* Wiseman, Nelson. ''Social Democracy in Manitoba: a History of the CCF-NDP'' (U. of Manitoba Press, 1983)
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===Bloody Saturday===
-[[File:Winnipeg general strike turns into a riot E004666107-v8.jpg|thumb|alt=B&W people on the street|Winnipeg general strike turns into a riot]]
-[[File:Winnipeg general strike turns into a riot E004666106-v8.jpg|thumb|alt=B&W people on the street|Crowds on the street]]
- A streetcar operated by a strikebreaker attempted to travel south on Main Street towards Portage Avenue but was stopped and tipped off the tracks and briefly set on fire.<ref name="Masters 83, 107">Masters, ''Winnipeg General Strike'', pp. 83–88, 107–108.</ref>
+Two bullets went through the legs of Steve Szczerbanowicz, who died two days later as a result of gangrene.
-After the Mayor read the Riot Act,
+The police continued their charge, circling the block containing city hall.
-When the ''Strike Bulletin'' published its account of the events of Bloody Saturday, the editors, [[J. S. Woodsworth|J.S. Woodsworth]] and [[Fred Dixon (politician)|Fred J. Dixon]], were arrested and charged with seditious libel. They had published articles with headings such as “Kaiserism in Canada” and “The British Way.” The charges against Woodsworth included his quotation of a verse from Isaiah: “[[Isaiah 10|Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees]].” Further publication of the newspaper was suppressed.<ref>Penner, ''Winnipeg 1919'', pp. 207–215.</ref>
+From William, they turned onto King Street behind city hall and then up the other side along Market Avenue, which no longer exists on that side of Main.
-These events broke the confidence of the Strike Committee, and on June 25, they announced the end of the strike for 11:00 a.m. the next day. After six weeks, workers drifted back to their jobs, but many were blacklisted or otherwise punished for participating in the strike.<ref name= "Bumsted p. 58">{{harvnb|Bumsted|1994|p=58}}</ref>
-Within a short time, the mounted squad, joined by a number of special constables — hired after Winnipeg officers were fired for refusing to denounce the strike — lined up across the width of Main Street.
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-They loped into the crowd, knocking people down, forcing them off the street and onto sidewalks, and battered them with clubs if they didn’t move, according to multiple archival and contemporary reports.Within a short time, the mounted squad, joined by a number of special constables — hired after Winnipeg officers were fired for refusing to denounce the strike — lined up across the width of Main Street.
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-They loped into the crowd, knocking people down, forcing them off the street and onto sidewalks, and battered them with clubs if they didn’t move, according to multiple archival and contemporary reports.
+Arriving back at Main Street, they fired again into the area around the smouldering streetcar.
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Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council</div></td>
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<li><a href="/wiki/Royal_North-West_Mounted_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal North-West Mounted Police">Royal North-West Mounted Police</a></li></ul></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Armstrong_(Manitoba_politician)" title="George Armstrong (Manitoba politician)">George Armstrong</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Ernest_Bray" title="Roger Ernest Bray">Roger Bray</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Albert_Heaps" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Albert Heaps">Abraham Heaps</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/William_Ivens" title="William Ivens">William Ivens</a></li>
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<li><a href="/wiki/John_Queen" title="John Queen">John Queen</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/wiki/Gideon_Robertson" title="Gideon Robertson">Gideon Robertson</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1835_Philadelphia_general_strike" title="1835 Philadelphia general strike">Philadelphia</a> 1835</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1877_St._Louis_general_strike" title="1877 St. Louis general strike">St. Louis</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Scranton_general_strike" title="Scranton general strike">Scranton</a> 1877</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day" title="International Workers' Day">First May Day</a> (<a href="/wiki/Haymarket_affair#May_Day_parade_and_strikes" title="Haymarket affair">Haymarket Affair</a>) 1886</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1892_New_Orleans_general_strike" title="1892 New Orleans general strike">New Orleans</a> 1892</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_general_strike" title="Swedish general strike">Sweden</a> 1909</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_general_strike_(1910)" title="Philadelphia general strike (1910)">Philadelphia</a> 1910</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1918_Vancouver_general_strike" title="1918 Vancouver general strike">Vancouver</a> 1918</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seattle_General_Strike" title="Seattle General Strike">Seattle</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Winnipeg</a> 1919</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kapp_Putsch" title="Kapp Putsch">Berlin</a> 1920</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1934_West_Coast_waterfront_strike" title="1934 West Coast waterfront strike">San Francisco</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_general_strike_of_1934" title="Minneapolis general strike of 1934">Minneapolis</a> 1934</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1946_Oakland_general_strike" title="1946 Oakland general strike">Oakland</a> 1946</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1950_Austrian_general_strikes" title="1950 Austrian general strikes">Austria</a> 1950</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_general_strike_of_1956" title="Finnish general strike of 1956">Finland</a> 1956</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1958_Paraguayan_general_strike" title="1958 Paraguayan general strike">Paraguay</a> 1958</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1973_Uruguayan_general_strike" title="1973 Uruguayan general strike">Uruguay</a> 1973</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1988_Spanish_general_strike" title="1988 Spanish general strike">Spain</a> 1988</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/April_1992_Nepalese_general_strike" title="April 1992 Nepalese general strike">Nepal</a> 1992</li></ul>
<dl><dt>2000s</dt></dl>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Guinean_general_strike" title="2007 Guinean general strike">Guinea</a> 2007</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Egyptian_general_strike" title="2008 Egyptian general strike">Egypt</a> 2008</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2009_French_Caribbean_general_strikes" title="2009 French Caribbean general strikes">French Caribbean</a> 2009</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2010_Spanish_general_strike" title="2010 Spanish general strike">Spain</a> 2010</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_European_general_strike" title="2012 European general strike">European</a> 2012</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Indian_general_strike" title="2016 Indian general strike">India</a> 2016</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2017_Brazilian_general_strike" title="2017 Brazilian general strike">Brazil</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/2017_Catalan_general_strike" title="2017 Catalan general strike">Catalan</a> 2017</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2019_Catalan_general_strike" title="2019 Catalan general strike">Catalan</a> 2019</li></ul>
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<p>The <b>Winnipeg general strike</b> of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in <a href="/wiki/History_of_Canada" title="History of Canada">Canadian history</a>. For six weeks, May 15 to June 26, more than 30,000 strikers brought economic activity to a standstill in <a href="/wiki/Winnipeg" title="Winnipeg">Winnipeg, Manitoba</a>, which at the time was Canada's third largest city. In the short term, the strike ended in arrests, bloodshed and defeat, but in the long run it contributed to the development of a stronger labour movement and the tradition of social democratic politics in Canada.
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Causes_of_the_strike"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Causes of the strike</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#The_1919_general_strike"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">The 1919 general strike</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Organization"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Organization</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Opposition"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Opposition</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Bloody_Saturday"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Bloody Saturday</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Role_in_the_Labour_Revolt"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Role in the Labour Revolt</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Aftermath"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Aftermath</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#"State_trials"_and_deportations"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">"State trials" and deportations</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Political_impact"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Political impact</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Strike's_impact_on_unions"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Strike's impact on unions</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Historiography"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Historiography</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Commemorations_in_popular_culture"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Commemorations in popular culture</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Bibliography"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Bibliography</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li>
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<p>There were many background causes for the strike, most of them related to the prevailing social inequalities and the impoverished condition of the city's working class. Wages were low, prices were rising, employment was unstable, immigrants faced discrimination, housing and health conditions were poor.
</p><p>In addition, there was resentment of the enormous profits enjoyed by employers during the war. Soldiers returning from the war were determined to see improved social conditions and opportunities after their harrowing experiences overseas. Most workers did not have union representation, but many were influenced by the hope of achieving greater economic security through unions.<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p.-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>Many workers were also influenced by socialist ideas voiced by local reformers, radicals and revolutionaries. These attracted greater interest, especially among the large population of immigrants from Eastern Europe, after the Russian Revolution of 1917. A meeting of western labour delegates in Calgary in March 1919 adopted numerous radical resolutions, including support for a five-day week and a six-hour day. They also called for the establishment of a new union centre, the <a href="/wiki/One_Big_Union_(Canada)" title="One Big Union (Canada)">One Big Union</a>, to promote class solidarity by uniting workers from all trades and industries in one organization. The idea that the OBU instigated the general strike is misleading, as the OBU was not formed until June 1919. However, the "one big union" idea contributed to the atmosphere of unrest.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Similar volatile conditions existed elsewhere in Canada, and in other countries around the world, at the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, but the combination of circumstances in Winnipeg proved to be explosive.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>The most immediate cause of the strike involved support for collective bargaining in the metal trades and building trades, where workers were attempting to negotiate contracts through their trades councils. When the Metal Trades Council and the Building Trades Council had both failed to secure contracts with employers by the end of April, they went on strike, the building trades on May 1 and the metal trades on May 2. Shortly afterwards, the situation was discussed at meetings of the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council, the umbrella body for the city's unions. The Labour Council decided to call on their 12,000 affiliated members to vote on a proposal for a general strike .<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> On a smaller scale, this tactic had achieved success for striking city workers a year earlier in 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> Preliminary results of the vote among the Labour Council's member unions were announced on May 13. The outcome showed overwhelming support for a general strike, 8,667 to 645.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> Ernest Robinson, secretary of the Labour Council, issued a statement that "every organization but one has voted in favour of the general strike" and that "all public utilities will be tied-up in order to enforce the principle of collective bargaining".<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._28_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p._28-7">[7]</a></sup> A Strike Committee was established, with delegates elected by the city's unions. The leadership included both moderate trade unionists, such as James Winning, a bricklayer who was president of the Trades and Labour Council, and socialists such as <a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Russell" title="Robert B. Russell">R.B. Russell</a>, a machinist who favoured the OBU.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_1919_general_strike">The 1919 general strike</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The 1919 general strike">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Organization">Organization</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Organization">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>At 11:00 a.m. on Thursday May 15, 1919, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg went on strike. Somewhere around 30,000 workers in the public and private sectors walked off their jobs, and the city experienced a sudden cessation of many normal activities. The Strike Committee requested the police force, who had voted in favour of the strike, to remain on duty. Workers at the city waterworks also remained on the job to provide service at reduced pressure. Union membership had increased substantially during the spring of 1919, but most of the people who came out in support of the general strike were not union members. For instance, the first to leave work, at 7:00 a.m., were the telephone operators, the so-called "hello girls" at the city telephone exchanges, who were not at this time union members. Also on the first day of the strike, the major organizations of returned soldiers announced their support and were active throughout the six weeks of the strike.<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._29_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p._29-8">[8]</a></sup>
</p><p>In the early days of the strike, one historian has written, "The atmosphere was almost festive, the belief in ultimate victory strong."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> Participants assembled in city parks to listen to speakers report on the progress of the strike and discuss the many related social reform issues of the time. To ensure that strikers were kept informed of developments, the Strike Committee also published a daily <i>Strike Bulletin</i>. This newspaper urged the strikers to remain peaceable as well as idle: “The only thing the workers have to do to win this strike is to do nothing. Just eat, sleep, play, love, laugh, and look at the sun. . . . Our fight consists of doing no fighting.”.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup>
</p><p>Women leaders played an important part in building solidarity among the strikers. Experienced organizers such as <a href="/wiki/Helen_Armstrong_(activist)" title="Helen Armstrong (activist)">Helen "Ma" Armstrong</a>, one of two women on the Strike Committee, encouraged young working women to join the strike and often spoke on street corners and at public meetings. The Women's Labour League raised money to help women workers pay rent. They also set up a kitchen where hundreds of meals were served every day.<sup id="cite_ref-Kelly_p.20-26_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kelly_p.20-26-11">[11]</a></sup> On June 12 a "ladies day" was held at Victoria Park, where women occupied seats of honour to cheer a speech by J.S. Woodsworth promoting the emancipation of women and the equality of the sexes.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> An emerging working-class activist named Edith Hancox, who became a notable defender of the city’s dispossessed during the 1920s, is the only woman reported as a speaker at the huge outdoor gatherings at Victoria Park.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>
</p><p>Negotiations between members of the Strike Committee, city council and local businesses produced an arrangement to continue milk and bread deliveries. To make it clear that the delivery men were not strikebreakers, a small poster was printed for display on their wagons reading “PERMITTED BY AUTHORITY OF STRIKE COMMITTEE.” Although the cards were suggested by management, they were also attacked as evidence that the Strike Committee was taking control of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup>   
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Opposition">Opposition</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Opposition">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
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<p>In a city divided on class lines, opposition to the strike was led by a group of local businessmen and professionals who described themselves as the Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand. From their headquarters in the Board of Trade building, they encouraged employers not to give in to the strikers and attempted to stir up resentment of “alien” immigrants, who, they charged, were the principal leaders of the strike. They also put pressure on governments to take action against the strike. They published a newspaper, <i>The Winnipeg Citizen</i>, that claimed that “the so-called general strike is in reality revolution – or a daring attempt to overthrow the present industrial and governmental system.”<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup>
</p><p>At the end of the first week of the strike, two federal cabinet ministers arrived in Winnipeg to assess the situation, the acting Minister of Justice Arthur Meighen and the Minister of Labour Gideon Robertson. They refused to meet with the Strike Committee, but consulted with the Citizens’ Committee, who greatly influenced their conclusions. Meighen issued a statement that the strike was "a cloak for something far deeper—an effort to 'overturn' the proper authority". Robertson reported back to Ottawa that “the motive behind this strike undoubtedly was the overthrow of Constitutional Government.”<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._37-39_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p._37-39-16">[16]</a></sup> They warned striking postal workers, who were federal employees, to return to work or lose their jobs.  At this time, they also authorized the local government to use the armed forces and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police as needed. In preparation for arrests, at the beginning of June, and on the advice of one of the leaders of the Citizens' Committee, A.J. Andrews, the federal government amended the Immigration Act to allow for the deportation without trial of any British citizens not born in Canada who were charged with seditious activity.<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._47-48_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p._47-48-17">[17]</a></sup>
</p><p>The municipal government also took action. As large numbers of veterans were holding marches in the streets in support of the strike, <i>Winnipeg General Strike</i>, p. 90.</ref> On June 9 the city also dismissed almost the entire police force for refusing to sign a pledge promising to neither belong to a union nor participate in a sympathetic strike. With the assistance of the Citizens’ Committee, the city police were replaced with a large body of untrained but better paid special constables who patrolled the streets with clubs. Within hours, one of the special constables, a much-medalled World War I veteran <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Coppins" title="Frederick Coppins">Frederick Coppins</a>, charged into a gathering of strikers and was dragged off his horse and severely pummelled. This led to claims that he was attacked by "enemy ruffians."<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._50-52_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p._50-52-18">[18]</a></sup>
</p><p>The local newspapers, the <i><a href="/wiki/Winnipeg_Free_Press" title="Winnipeg Free Press">Winnipeg Free Press</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Winnipeg_Tribune" class="mw-redirect" title="Winnipeg Tribune">Winnipeg Tribune</a></i>, had lost the majority of their employees due to the strike, but once they were able to resume publication, they took a decidedly anti-strike stance. . These anti-strike views influenced the opinions of some Winnipeg residents and contributed to the deepening atmosphere of crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup>
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A plan to offer a modified form of collective bargaining to the Metal Trades Council was in the works at the middle of the month, but any efforts at compromise were ended by a series of arrests on charges of seditious conspiracy. In the early morning hours of June 17, the RNWMP apprehended several prominent leaders of the strike, including <a href="/wiki/George_Armstrong_(Manitoba_politician)" title="George Armstrong (Manitoba politician)">George Armstrong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ernest_Bray" title="Roger Ernest Bray">Roger Bray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Albert_Heaps" class="mw-redirect" title="Abraham Albert Heaps">Abraham Heaps</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Ivens" title="William Ivens">William Ivens</a>, R.B. Russell and <a href="/wiki/John_Queen" title="John Queen">John Queen</a>. In addition, <a href="/wiki/William_Arthur_Pritchard" title="William Arthur Pritchard">William Arthur Pritchard</a>, a Vancouver union organizer who was returning from Winnipeg, was arrested in Calgary. R. J. Johns, of Winnipeg, was in Montreal and not arrested at this time. With the exception of Armstrong,They rocked the car from side to side but were unable to tip it over entirely. They smashed the windows, climbed inside, slashed the seats and set it on fire. who was Canadian-born, they were all British immigrants. Several foreign-born socialists, including Sam Blumenberg, Max Charitonoff and Solomon Almazoff were also arrested, as was Oscar Schoppelrei, an American-born Canadian war veteran of German ethnic origin.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup></p><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/wiki/File:RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike,_1919.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike%2C_1919.jpg/220px-RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike%2C_1919.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="thumbimage" srcset="/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike%2C_1919.jpg/330px-RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike%2C_1919.jpg 1.5x, /media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike%2C_1919.jpg/440px-RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike%2C_1919.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="785" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:RNWMP_operations_in_Winnipeg_General_Strike,_1919.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/North-West_Mounted_Police" title="North-West Mounted Police">RNWMP</a> action in Winnipeg during the strike</div></div></div>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Bloody_Saturday">Bloody Saturday</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bloody Saturday">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>Two bullets went through the legs of Steve Szczerbanowicz, who died two days later as a result of gangrene.
</p><p>The police continued their charge, circling the block containing city hall.
</p><p>From William, they turned onto King Street behind city hall and then up the other side along Market Avenue, which no longer exists on that side of Main.
</p><p>Arriving back at Main Street, they fired again into the area around the smouldering streetcar.
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<p>In May and June 1919 general strikes broke out in as many as thirty other cities, from Amherst, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia. Some of these strikes were protests against local conditions, some were in solidarity with Winnipeg, and others involved both causes.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup>   
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Aftermath">Aftermath</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Aftermath">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<p>Eight of the strike leaders were brought to trial on charges of seditious conspiracy. The evidence against them focused less on their actions than on their socialist ideas, which were seen as the root cause of the unrest that led to the general strike. Under arrangements accepted (and paid for) by the federal government, the prosecution was conducted by Andrews and other “legal gentlemen” who were active in the Citizens’ Committee during the strike.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup>
</p><p>Seven of the accused (Armstrong, Bray, Ivens, Johns, Pritchard, Russell and Queen) were found guilty by the largely rural juries selected for the trials. Most were sentenced to one-year sentences, but Russell was sentenced to two years and Bray, who was convicted on a lesser charge, was sentenced to six months. (As well, John Farnell, who had filled the void left in the leadership of pro-strike returned soldiers after Bray's arrest, was sentenced to nine months in prison. He was released three months early, due to his wife's illness.)<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup>
</p><p>Heaps conducted his own defence. He was acquitted on all charges. Dixon, who was charged with seditious libel, delivered a strong defence of the right to free speech as an essential element of the British tradition. After forty hours of deliberation, the largely urban jury acquitted him. This result caused the prosecution to abandon the similar charges against Woodsworth.<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._66-69_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p._66-69-24">[24]</a></sup>
</p><p>In the case of the “foreigners” arrested on June 17, there were no criminal proceedings. Almazoff and Charitonoff appealed successfully against deportation. Blumenberg and Schoppelrei were ordered deported on technical grounds related to their original entry into the country.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup> Blumenberg found his feet in the U.S., organizing workers in the Duluth area and even running for municipal office there on the socialist platform. <sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_impact">Political impact</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Political impact">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>A provincial royal commission headed by H.A. Robson investigated the strike. The report deplored sympathetic strikes but concluded that the Winnipeg strike was not a criminal conspiracy by foreigners and stated that "if Capital does not provide enough to assure Labour a contented existence ... then the Government might find it necessary to step in and let the state do these things at the expense of Capital."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup>
</p><p>The impact of the strike was evident in subsequent elections. Labour had elected some representatives prior to the strike but the number significantly increased afterwards at all three levels of government.
</p><p>While awaiting trial, Queen was re-elected to the Winnipeg City council.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup> While serving out their sentences in prison, Armstrong, Ivens and Queen were elected to the Manitoba legislature. Queen later served seven terms as mayor of Winnipeg.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup>
</p><p>Woodsworth was elected as a Labour Member of Parliament from Winnipeg in 1921 and was repeatedly re-elected until his death in 1942. In 1932 he helped found and became leader of the <a href="/wiki/Co-operative_Commonwealth_Federation" title="Co-operative Commonwealth Federation">Co-operative Commonwealth Federation</a>, a forerunner of the <a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic Party</a>. That party was elected to provincial government in Saskatchewan in 1944 and in Manitoba in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup> Heaps was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Winnipeg North in 1925 and re-elected until 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._107-108_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p._107-108-31">[31]</a></sup>
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<p>Organized labour built on the legacy of the strike to strengthen the union movement and to pursue formal collective bargaining rights. The One Big Union flourished briefly, achieving its greatest popularity in 1920. This was followed by the rise of new industrial unions in the 1930s. The renewed poverty and insecurity of the Great Depression led to a long period of labour militancy across Canada in the 1940s, when union membership increased substantially. By the end of that decade, a formal industrial relations regime was established in Canadian law that provided some security for unions and their members but also threatened to limit the scope of their activity.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Historiography">Historiography</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Historiography">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>Discussions of the Winnipeg general strike often start from the contemporary debate about whether it was a conspiracy to overthrow the government or a fight for union recognition and a living wage. Given the scale of the general strike and its political impact, however, it was difficult to consider it only an ordinary collective bargaining dispute.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> This led some historians to study local labour relations in detail <sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup> while others examined the nature of labour reform and radical activism in western Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup> Churches, immigrants, women, soldiers, and municipal politics have also been the subject of study.<sup id="cite_ref-Bumsted_p._1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bumsted_p.-1">[1]</a></sup> The “red scare” promoted by business and government spokesmen attracted attention, as did the legal manoeuvres that led to the arrest and conviction of prominent strike supporters on charges of sedition.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup>
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While some historians regarded the strike as a western labour revolt rooted in unique conditions in western Canada, others have pointed to widespread labour unrest across Canada, both in 1919 itself <sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup> and also during the years from 1917 to 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup> Recent accounts of the strike have also noted that most strikers were not union members, suggesting that the events might be described as an urban rebellion against the failings of the capitalist social order as it existed at the end of World War I.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup> </p><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg/220px-Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="thumbimage" srcset="/media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg/330px-Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg 1.5x, /media/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg/440px-Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg 2x" data-file-width="492" data-file-height="272" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Gr%C3%A8ve_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_Winnipeg_1919.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Partially overturned streetcar during the strike</div></div></div>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Commemorations_in_popular_culture">Commemorations in popular culture</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Commemorations in popular culture">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>Shortly after the strike, two novels, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Connor" title="Ralph Connor">Ralph Connor</a>’s <i>To Him that Hath</i> (Toronto, 1921) and <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Durkin" title="Douglas Durkin">Douglas Durkin</a>'s <i>The Magpie</i> (Toronto, 1923), explored some of the labour and social themes raised by the strike. <i>Fox</i>, a 1991 novel by author <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Sweatman" title="Margaret Sweatman">Margaret Sweatman</a>, is a work of historical fiction about the events leading up to and following the strike. In 2019, <a href="/wiki/Fernwood_Publishing" title="Fernwood Publishing">Fernwood Publishing</a> released <i>Papergirl,</i> a young adult novel by Melinda McCracken about a girl who distributes the strikers' newspaper.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup>
</p><p>Among remembrances of this event in Canadian popular culture is the song "In Winnipeg" by musician <a href="/wiki/Mike_Ford_(musician)" title="Mike Ford (musician)">Mike Ford</a>, included in the album <i>Canada Needs You Volume Two</i>.
</p><p>In 2005, Danny Schur created a musical called <i><a href="/wiki/Strike!_(musical)" title="Strike! (musical)">Strike!</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup> based on the event. A film version called <a href="/wiki/Stand!_(2019_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand! (2019 film)"><i>Stand!</i></a> was scheduled for release in 2019 and premiered on September 10, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup>
</p><p>Many of the famous photographs of the strike were by Winnipeg photographer <a href="/wiki/L._B._Foote" title="L. B. Foote">L. B. Foote</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
</p><p>In Winnipeg, there are several memorials and monuments commemorating the strike.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/1918_Vancouver_general_strike" title="1918 Vancouver general strike">1918 Vancouver general strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Seattle_General_Strike" title="Seattle General Strike">1919 Seattle General Strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/On-to-Ottawa_Trek" title="On-to-Ottawa Trek">1935 On-to-Ottawa Trek</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">James Naylor, "Standing Together," <i>Canada's History</i> (April–May 2019), pp. 22–24.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Bumsted_p._29-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bumsted_p._29_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBumsted1994">Bumsted 1994</a>, p. 29</span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bercuson, <i>Confrontation at Winnipeg</i>, p. 116.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quoted by Kenneth McNaught, <i>A Prophet in Politics: A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth</i> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959), p. 121.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Kelly_p.20-26-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Kelly_p.20-26_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKelly2016">Kelly 2016</a>, pp. 20–26</span>
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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mary Horodyski, "Women and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919," <i>Manitoba History</i> 11 (Spring 1986), pp. 28–37.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David Thompson, “More Sugar, Less Salt: Edith Hancox and the Passionate Mobilization of the Dispossessed, 1919–1928,” <i>Labour/Le Travail</i>  85 (Spring 2020), pp. 127–163. </span>
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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Penner, <i>Winnipeg 1919</i>, pp. 48–52.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">D.C. Masters, <i>The Winnipeg General Strike</i> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950), p. 66.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Bumsted_p._37-39-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bumsted_p._37-39_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBumsted1994">Bumsted 1994</a>, pp. 37–39</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Bumsted_p._47-48-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bumsted_p._47-48_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBumsted1994">Bumsted 1994</a>, pp. 47–48</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Bumsted_p._50-52-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bumsted_p._50-52_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBumsted1994">Bumsted 1994</a>, pp. 50–52</span>
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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mitchell, Tom and James Naylor, "The Prairies: In the Eye of the Storm." In <i>The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925</i> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998) pp. 176–180.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, <i>When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike</i> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp, 163–166.  </span>
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<li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Naylor, "Standing Together," pp. 26–27.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tom Mitchell, "'Legal Gentlemen Appointed by the Federal Government': The Canadian State, the Citizens' Committee of 1000, and Winnipeg's Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919–1920," <i>Labour/Le Travail</i>, 53 (Spring 2004), pp. 9–46.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Edmonton Bulletin, August 5, 1920</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Bumsted_p._66-69-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bumsted_p._66-69_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBumsted1994">Bumsted 1994</a>, pp. 66–69</span>
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<li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kramer and Mitchell, <i>When the State Trembled</i>, pp. 283–287.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Masters, The Winnipeg General Strike, p. 150</span>
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<li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Justice H. A. Robson's report, quoted in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFFudgeTucker,_Eric2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Judy_Fudge" title="Judy Fudge">Fudge, Judy</a>; Tucker, Eric (2004). <i>Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900–1948</i>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 112. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8020-3793-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8020-3793-3"><bdi>0-8020-3793-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Labour+Before+the+Law%3A+The+Regulation+of+Workers%27+Collective+Action+in+Canada%2C+1900%E2%80%931948&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pages=112&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-8020-3793-3&rft.aulast=Fudge&rft.aufirst=Judy&rft.au=Tucker%2C+Eric&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Edmonton Bulletin, Nov. 29, 1919</span>
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<li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bumsted, <i>Dictionary of Manitoba Biography</i>, pp. 9, 120–121, 205.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFYoung1969" class="citation book cs1">Young, Walter D. (1969). <span class="cs1-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpartyna0000youn"><i>The anatomy of a party: the national CCF 1932–61</i></a></span>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpartyna0000youn/page/31">31</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+anatomy+of+a+party%3A+the+national+CCF+1932%E2%80%9361&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pages=31&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1969&rft.aulast=Young&rft.aufirst=Walter+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fanatomyofpartyna0000youn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Bumsted_p._107-108-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bumsted_p._107-108_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBumsted1994">Bumsted 1994</a>, pp. 107–108</span>
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<li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker, <i>Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900–1948</i> (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 302–305.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kenneth McNaught and David J. Bercuson, <i>The Winnipeg Strike: 1919</i> (Toronto: Longman Canada, 1974), pp. 99–124.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bercuson, <i>Confrontation at Winnipeg</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. Ross McCormack, <i>Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899–1919</i> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kramer and Mitchell, <i>When the State Trembled.</i></span>
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<li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gregory S. Kealey, "1919: The Canadian Labour Revolt," <i>Labour/Le Travail</i>, 13 (Spring 1984), pp. 11–44.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Heron, <i>The Workers' Revolt in Canada.</i></span>
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<li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Graphic History Collective and David Lester, <i>1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike</i> (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/papergirl">"Papergirl"</a>. <i>Fernwood Publishing</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 2,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Fernwood+Publishing&rft.atitle=Papergirl&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ffernwoodpublishing.ca%2Fbook%2Fpapergirl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.strikemusical.com">"Strike: The Musical"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Strike%3A+The+Musical&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.strikemusical.com&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldwideentertainmenttv.com/stand-movie-musical-at-tiff-press-release/">"STAND! MOVIE MUSICAL DURING TIFF – PRESS RELEASE"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=STAND%21+MOVIE+MUSICAL+DURING+TIFF+%E2%80%93+PRESS+RELEASE&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwideentertainmenttv.com%2Fstand-movie-musical-at-tiff-press-release%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Tipping Point" and "Taking to the Streets," <i>Canada's History</i> (April–May 2019), pp. 31, 50–51.</span>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFBumsted1994" class="citation book cs1">Bumsted, J. M. (1994). <i>The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History</i>. Watson & Dwyer. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780920486405" title="Special:BookSources/9780920486405"><bdi>9780920486405</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Winnipeg+General+Strike+of+1919%3A+An+Illustrated+History&rft.pub=Watson+%26+Dwyer&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=9780920486405&rft.aulast=Bumsted&rft.aufirst=J.+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span> <small>- Total pages: 140 </small></li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFKelly2016" class="citation web cs1">Kelly, Paula (January 9, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/women/looking-for-mrs-armstrong">"Looking for Mrs. Armstrong"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Canada%27s_History" title="Canada's History">Canada's History</a> vol 82 No. 3<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 4,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Looking+for+Mrs.+Armstrong&rft.pub=Canada%27s+History+vol+82+No.+3&rft.date=2016-01-09&rft.aulast=Kelly&rft.aufirst=Paula&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.canadashistory.ca%2Fexplore%2Fwomen%2Flooking-for-mrs-armstrong&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Further_reading">Further reading</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winnipeg_general_strike&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<ul><li>Balawyder, Aloysius, ed. <i>The Winnipeg General Strike</i> (Copp-Clark Publishing, 1967)</li>
<li>Bercuson, David. <i>Confrontation at Winnipeg: labour, industrial relations, and the general strike</i> (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1990)</li>
<li>Bumsted, J.M. <i>The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History</i> (Winnipeg: Watson & Dyer, 1994)</li>
<li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFBumsted1999" class="citation book cs1">Bumsted, J.M. (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IyZ389DiOlgC"><i>Dictionary of Manitoba Biography</i></a>. University of Manitoba Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0887551696" title="Special:BookSources/0887551696"><bdi>0887551696</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 31,</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Manitoba+Biography&rft.pub=University+of+Manitoba+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=0887551696&rft.aulast=Bumsted&rft.aufirst=J.M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DIyZ389DiOlgC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWinnipeg+general+strike" class="Z3988"></span></li>
<li>Epp-Koop, Stephan. <i>We're Going to Run this City: Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike</i> (University of Manitoba Press, 2015)</li>
<li>Friesen, Gerald. "'Yours In Revolt': The Socialist Party of Canada and the Western Canadian Labour Movement." <i>Labour/Le Travail</i> (1976) 1 pp. 139–157. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/LLT/article/viewFile/2319/2727">online</a></li>
<li>Graphic History Collective and David Lester, <i>1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike</i> (Between the Lines, 2019)</li>
<li>Heron, Craig, ed., <i>The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917–1925</i> (University of Toronto Press, 1998)</li>
<li>Kealey, Gregory S. "1919: The Canadian Labour Revolt," <i>Labour / Le Travail,</i> 13 (Spring 1984), pp. 11–44</li>
<li>Kelly, Paula, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://canadashistory.partica.online/canadas-history/the-beaver-jun-jul-2002/flipbook/20/">"Looking for Mrs. Armstrong,"</a> <i>Canada's History,</i> vol. 82, no. 3 (June–July 2002), pp. 20–26.</li>
<li>Kramer, Reinhold, and Tom Mitchell. <i>When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike</i> (U of Toronto Press, 2010)</li>
<li>Masters, Donald Campbell. <i>The Winnipeg General Strike</i> (University of Toronto Press, 1950)</li>
<li>McNaught, Kenneth and David J. Bercuson, <i>The Winnipeg Strike: 1919</i> (Longman Canada, 1974)</li>
<li>Korneski, Kurt. "Prairie Fire: The Winnipeg General Strike," <i>Labour / Le Travail,</i> 45 (Spring 2000), pp. 259–266. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25149057">In JSTOR</a></li>
<li>Penner, Norman, ed. <i>Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike</i> (James Lorimer and Company, 1973)</li>
<li>Stace, Trevor. "Remembering and Forgetting Winnipeg: Making History on the Strike of 1919." <i>Constellations</i> (2014) 5#1 on the historiography of 1919; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/constellations/article/viewFile/21381/16125">online</a>.</li>
<li>Wiseman, Nelson. <i>Social Democracy in Manitoba: a History of the CCF-NDP</i> (U. of Manitoba Press, 1983)</li></ul>
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<li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ballantyne_Pier" title="Battle of Ballantyne Pier">Vancouver dockers' strike</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1938)" title="Bloody Sunday (1938)">1938 Vancouver unemployed workers' protests</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ford_Strike_of_1945" title="Ford Strike of 1945">1945 Ford auto workers' strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/1946_Montreal_Cottons_strike" title="1946 Montreal Cottons strike">1946 Montreal Cottons strike</a></li>
<li>1949
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asbestos_strike" title="Asbestos strike">Asbestos strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Navy_mutinies_1949" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Canadian Navy mutinies 1949">Royal Canadian Navy mutinies</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Murdochville_strike" title="Murdochville strike">1957 Murdochville miners' strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_Loggers%27_Strike" title="Newfoundland Loggers' Strike">1958–1959 Newfoundland loggers' strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan_doctors%27_strike" title="Saskatchewan doctors' strike">1962 Saskatchewan doctors' strike</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late 20th century</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reesor_Siding_strike_of_1963" title="Reesor Siding strike of 1963">1963 Reesor Siding strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot" title="Murray-Hill riot">1969 Montreal police strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/1978_Inco_strike" title="1978 Inco strike">1978 Inco strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Breton_coal_strike_of_1981" title="Cape Breton coal strike of 1981">1981 Cape Breton coal strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Metro_Toronto_Elementary_Teacher%27s_strike" title="Metro Toronto Elementary Teacher's strike">1987 Metro Toronto elementary teachers' strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/1992_NHL_strike" title="1992 NHL strike">1992 NHL strike</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">21st century</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;width:100%;padding:0px"><div style="padding:0em 0.25em">
<ul><li>Toronto Transit Commission strikes
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Toronto_Transit_Commission_wildcat_strike" title="2006 Toronto Transit Commission wildcat strike">2006 wildcat</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/2008_Toronto_Transit_Commission_strike" title="2008 Toronto Transit Commission strike">2008</a></li></ul></li>
<li>York University strikes
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_York_University_strike" title="2008–2009 York University strike">2008–2009</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/2018_York_University_strike" title="2018 York University strike">2018</a></li></ul></li>
<li>2009 municipal employees' strikes
<ul><li><a href="/wiki/2009_City_of_Toronto_inside_and_outside_workers_strike" title="2009 City of Toronto inside and outside workers strike">Toronto</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/2009_City_of_Windsor_inside_and_outside_workers_strike" title="2009 City of Windsor inside and outside workers strike">Windsor</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/2009%E2%80%932010_Vale_Inco_strike" title="2009–2010 Vale Inco strike">2009–2010 Vale Inco strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Local_Xpress" title="Local Xpress">2016–2017 Halifax <i>Chronicle Herald</i> strike</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/2020_Port_of_Montreal_strike" title="2020 Port of Montreal strike">2020 Port of Montreal strike</a></li></ul>
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