(The Winnipeg General Sympathetic Strike, Winnipeg, p. 238). The Socialist Party was in no way involved in the strike. Yet five of the eight imprisoned were members of the Party [16] and numerous ...

A streetcar is overturned in Winnipeg on June 21, 1919, which became known as Bloody Saturday during the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. (L.B. Foote collection/Archives of Manitoba) ...

Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, from unrest to Bloody Saturday fallout 'Wild Woman of the West': Labour leader Helen Armstrong fought with courage and compassion during 1919 strike; ...

It was only a brief mention of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, but watching the film in a packed movie theatre in that very city in 1981, I recall a collective stir that reverberated through ...

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 ...

The Winnipeg General Strike took place only 18 months after the Russian Revolution, and the First World War had ended only six months earlier. Article content. In March, ...

After "Hamilton" made an earwormy global phenomenon from the life story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, no chapter of history can be declared too dour for spangly, heart-on-sleeve ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the Winnipeg General Strike, the most dramatic moment in our nation’s labour history and one highly romanticized ever since 1919.

Whilst the general strike in Seattle lasted 6 days, that in Winnipeg went on for 6 weeks. In 1918 there had been the first general strike in Canadian history in Vancouver, after the murder of Albert ...