HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture 11: Legacies of the Great Depression and Interwar Period
8 Mar 2017
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Legacies of the great depression and interwar period: protest. Vancouver general strike: april 1935: general strike in vancouver by relief camp workers" union. Thousand of relief camp workers protest camp wages and working conditions and wider issues like unemployment insurance: escalates into a small strike in vancouver, 20,000 gather on may day. End in regina before bennett decides it has been enough, orders the rail lines to not carry these workers, orders the rcmp to. Contrast: fdr"s new deal: people pointed to the states and how they dealt with unemployment and worker rights, social security act, 1933 -. benefits to retired, unemployed, children, widows, civilian conservation corps, 1933. Bennett models his relief camps after this, the difference is that members of the ccc were paid. a day and majority worked in cities itself: works progress administration, 1935. Expands the budget for infrastructure, does put a lot of people in the us to work,
