LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - 1918 Flu Pandemic, Industrial Workers Of The World, Industrial Unionism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Tension after the war is over continues to mound. This disease killed more people than the war did (15 million people died) Big change in the economy, the economy gets worse. One of the biggest strike waves in labour canadian history. The scale of the strike wave further frightens a lot of people. In some cases there are workers striking even when their labour unions tell them not to, and this really frightens people. Strikes happen in the west, maritimes and central ontario. Start making more plans for the one big union. Openly taking on the ideas of the iww. By the spring of 1919 canadian employees, elites are greatly concerned. The one big union never fully takes shape. You see it growing, people calling themselves one big union but it never fully takes shape. Decisions: have all unionized workers walk out of the job with no. They in particular made a lot of money.