HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Imperial Munitions Board, War Measures Act, Austria-Hungary
28 Jan 2017
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Unclear of who canada was fighting- looking as though canada was fighting its workers. Russia entered the war fighting germany and austria hungary. Russia was overthrown and a new government was installed that negotiated a peace agreement with germany and austria hungary and withdrew from war. Concerned about the rise of communism in their home countries. Enemy aliens immigrants that came from enemy countries. Releasing enemy aliens from intern camps in order to help factories with shortages of workers. This angered canadian workers, who needed to compete with enemy aliens. Seemed to be contrary to the whole idea of the war. Rising escalation of labour strikes going into the 1920s. Workers in canada saw what was happening in russia and was trying to replicate it in canada. In some cities there was a deliberate attempt to overthrow the existing organization of the government robert borden. There was not a labour surplus anymore, there were shortages.
