09-10+6SS+1919+Winnipeg+General+Strike

**Causes of the Winnipeg General Strike​**
 * Lots of people didn't have jobs and prices were high.
 * They wanted better wages and better working conditions
 * the workers thought that their bosses made lots of money during WW1 and weren't willing to share
 * The success of the Russian Revolution in 1917 worried people. Bolsheviks killed Russia's monarch (ruler). A revolution is when people take over their government and people were worried that the strikers were trying to start a revolution. (Most strikers did not really want a revolution)
 * The workers were mad at the employers

**Things that happened during the Winnipeg General Strike**


 * On May 15 more than 30 000 people left their jobs
 * veterans joined the strikers because they couldn't get their jobs back
 * Bloody Saturday June 21,1919
 * during Bloody Saturday the strike's leaders were arrested. During Bloody Saturday 2 people were killed and 30 were wounded.


 * the immigration act was changed so that the authorities could deport British strike leaders
 * The winnipeg police got fired because they joined the strikers
 * Mail delivery and telephone service stoped.
 * Businness and services refused to operate with out permission from the strikes leaders
 * 1800 people were hired to act like police to tame the strikers down

the goverment and bosses and government and workers kept arguing even after the strike!! In the 1920 MB provincial election 11 labour candidates were elected and 4 were strike leaders Some of the strikers were sent to jail for as long as 2 years Winnipeg's economy went into decline. they did not get higher wages did not get better work hours people remembered the strike the definition of "sedition" in the criminal code was broadened Sedition means saying or doing things against your government led to more unions
 * Results of the Winnipeg General Strike**


 * Other interesting information about the Winnipeg General Strike

Sources: Canada, A Country of Change**