1. Winnipeg General Strike 1919
Businesses in labor-intensive industries charged that the Industrial Workers of the World and socialist organizations were undermining the economy. ... That this consensus view as generally correct is supported by the facts that first the most important demands of labor and social activists made during the strike have been recognized and passed into law by the government, and second the political successor, the New Democratic Party, to the forces behind the Winnipeg General Strike has emerged as a political force in Canada. In the aftermath of WWI, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Border (Tor...
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