One could say that the General Strike of May 1926 lasting a lengthy nine days was the greatest show of union solidarity that Britain had ever seen. Others such as Beatrice Webb saw it merely as "little more than a nine days wonder". Sometimes it is hard to pinpoint the most significan...
In the Canadian labour movement's long and continuing history of struggles to establish its trade-union rights, no episode was more spectacular, explosive or meaningful than the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. General strikes by definition involve working-class confrontations with authority and produce a massive disruption of society while paralysing economic life. They are "cataclysmic events [and] by their nature, unlikely to be created in a day."1 The Winnipeg General Strike had many roots, including class polarization, working conditions and socialist ideas. The labour relations conf...
