HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: War Measures Act, Industrial Unionism, War Economy
8 May 2017
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Often lacked the same roots as the east because it was newer. West was meant to be agrarian and was meant to remain that way. Lacked a manufacturing base, getting only 1% of industrial expansion. Unhappy about banking interests in the east and their concentration there. Disliked dependence on cpr and transcontinental, which were eastern based. Marxist unions arose in the west who sought to gain control of the means of production. West was frontier, and still very much felt detached. Single resource towns were more conducive to a confrontation between capital and labor. Towns less established, had less permanent population and high turnover. High rates of immigration and greater ethnic homogeneity. More dangerous line of work, which added to the tension. One attempted in 1919 in toronto and one in amherst nova scotia. Dislocation caused by the wartime economy represented the more short term context of why the conflict emerged.
