Winnipeg General Strike

Winnipeg General Strike
- The Winnipeg general strike was Canada's most famous strike.
Causes

- Massive unemployment & inflation. Unemployment grew when the war ended. Jobs were lost at munitions plants (a quarter of a million people looking for work) and 350 000 veterans returned home with no jobs. There was an overload of money and a lack of goods, which caused inflation.

- The success of the Russian revolution (1917) and political unrest in Germany caused by radical new unionist ideas. The membership in unions increased greatly. In Calgary, (March 1919) there was a meeting of the union members to discuss a workers revolution in Canada like the Russian one. They pledged to create One Big Union (O.B.U.) for all workers.

The Strike

On May 15, 1919 when negotiation broke down between the management and ...