LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: War Measures Act, English Canada, White Feathers

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Immigrant labour organized labour"s responses (part one) Even when it was good thought it would be bad the next year. Mainstream movement joined in and lead some of opposition to immigration. Labour movement could not change views of government by themselves. Even organizations that saw themselves as more inclusive still would not accept immigrants. Wanted to organize all workers no matter where you were from or what skill level you had. Immigrant traditions: fixated on revolution, organized a lot of immigrants, lots of immigrants that they organized already had experience with socialist parties. Membership had concerns about being deported, job security, being vulnerable to bosses (wanted to act on this) Leadership only wanted to focus on revolution. British columbia: where socialist party becomes strongest, traditions were not always the best, anti-chinese feeling ran high in bc, socialist party of canada did not resist this. Immigrant labour organized labour"s responses (part two) Wobblies are main organization at this time.

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