HISTORY 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Crescentwood
12 Apr 2018
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Winnipeg general strike of 1919 bloody saturday cbc documentary. One of the largest and bloodiest strike in canada. Winnipeg was a city of ignorance in 1919. Many immigrants settle in north end and were impoverished. Many women were committed to poverty if the husband was killed. Today the north end is still home to working class. More than 1,000 refugees arrive in the north end each year. Maintaining the status quo was on the mind of the rich in crescentwood (still is) By may 1919, jobs decreased (no jobs for people returning home from war, except railway) Call for strike across the city, unions held vote (black and white marbles) 11,000 agreed, 500 were against strike. May 15th at 11am the strike began 30,000 people involved, 2/3 were non-union workers: by the afternoon, the streets were quiet, behind doors, people against the strike formed the committee of the 1,000. Strike became war of words; committee of 1,000 accused the newcomers.
