Political Science 2211E Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: In Private, Via Rail, North American Free Trade Agreement
4 Apr 2020
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British and american immigrants brought some of these unions with them; others were invited by. Canadian local unions that wanted to part of something bigger and stronger and whose members wanted to be able to move freely to jobs in the us when times were hard in canada. The knights began in hamilton in the fall of 1881: within a decade they had organized well over 300 local assemblies in more than 100 cities, towns and villages in every province except pei and saskatchewan. The knights was mainly responsible for the organization of the unskilled, men and women and of small town workers. Their first big effort in canada was organizing 30 local assemblies of telegraphers, from. This body conducted the one genuinely international strike in north american history, against the big telegraph companies on both sides of the border. The strike failed and the canadian telegraphers" assemblies disappeared but the knights went on to organize almost every conceivable craft.
