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The Winnipeg general strike, 1919 - Sam Lowry Crowd gathers outside City Hall during Winnipeg General Strike, June 21, 1919. A short history of Canada's Winnipeg general strike of 1919.
The site of the bloodiest clash of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike is set to be cast in bronze and glass.
A crowd gathers in Winnipeg early in June, 1919, during the height of the city's 40-day general strike. Two persons were killed and 40 injured in the disorders that broke out.
On May 9, Nation strikes correspondent Jane McAlevey delivered the keynote address at the Winnipeg 1919 General Strike Centenary Conference, in Manitoba, Canada. The four-day conference lifted up ...
As the trial dates for their arrested leaders approached, thousands of 1919 Winnipeg General Strike supporters walked in a Labour Day parade, holding banners declaring their ongoing fight for ...
Crowds are seen on the streets of Winnipeg on June 10, 1919, during the general strike, which ran from May 15 to July 26, 1919. Photo by Glenbow Museum/Canadian War Museum ...
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 provides important lessons of worker solidarity and action that we may need to pay close attention to as labour struggles are likely to intensify in Canada.
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In Canada, the Strike Is Under New Management - MSNLabor unrest intensified during and after World War I, culminating in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Though ultimately quashed, the strike became a landmark in the history of Canadian labor ...
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Winnipeg’s famed Portage and Main – shut to pedestrians for nearly half a century – has been rebornDubbed the crossroads of Canada, the story of the intersection is also the complicated narrative of the city and the nation ...
Far to the east of Seattle at Winnipeg, Manitoba in central Canada, another general strike took place. Whilst the general strike in Seattle lasted 6 days, that in Winnipeg went on for 6 weeks. In 1918 ...
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