HIST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Public Health, Samuel Gompers, Social Stratification

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Dangerous foreigners & the workers" revolt in canada. Open door policy (for europeans): recruitment of cheap labour, farmers. Many anglo-canadians resented the influx of strange newcomers. Racial pecking order = ease of assimilation. Opponents of the open door: organized labour (economically threatened, middle class social reformers. Chinese immigrants 1880s, japanese 1890s: no recruitment, head tax on chinese (1885 = 1885 to ) Initially blamed immorality, disease, and crime on the poor and immigrants o. 1919 strike wave: 420 strikes: wave of unrest after the war. People losing their jobs or not getting their jobs back. Winnipeg general strike (may-june 1919) o o. Newly arrived from eastern europe: general strike = all workers strike, shut down city, political strike. The reformers: trade and labour congress: american federation of labor. Western labour conference 1918: obu (2 weeks into winnipeg strike) o. May 1st: building trades and metal workers o.

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