LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Syndicalism, Industrial Workers Of The World, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
27 Oct 2016
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Immigrant labour organized labour"s responses part 1. Socialist party of canada: immigrant traditions, bc. Labour leaders didn(cid:495)t do racism but agree on emerging problems. Trying to protect the chinese immigrants in canada. Liberal mp for bc built on anti-asian campaigns. Labour leaders were mainly conservative and sympathy. Aboriginals (1885) supported the rebellion: they are getting pushed aside and their land is being taken away. Very few people would speak up (e. g. churches) Radical movement as this time not strong. Radical labour movement : tends to seek and all workers and organize them into workers, all workers are allies. Big racial movement all workers should be organized. Some immigrants came from radical traditions: e. g. Socialist parties feeds these radical traditions (from england, scotland, etc. : draws tensions. Many immigrants needs their rights, more job security and basic changes in status. Socialist party in canada really starts to lose edge on anti-racism. Reality many social party in canada are advocating chinese.
