Essay --

The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike was a pivotal event in Canadian labor history. It was fight for the injustice happening to the people of Canada who worked extremely hard to fight the war for Europe. These factory workers and the returned soldiers wanted nothing more than the fulfilment of the needs. For instance, they wanted better wages, stable jobs. However, as soldiers came back after fighting the war their jobs were taken by the immigrants. In addition to the workers who already were working for these metal industries wanted recognition and better working condition, which then led to the 1919 Winnipeg strike. The strike started on 15 may by the second day more than 35000 workers were on strike. The Winnipeg police and the police union decided together, and came to the strike only to be demanded by the strike committee to rejoin their jobs. One can tell that the motive of the municipal police was clear; they did not demand any violence. However, they were greatly misunderstood, p art of the police force were confused with the strikers. The City of Winnipeg Police Commission terminated the nearly all the local police constables for declining to sign an agreement and taking the oath to neither participate nor belong to the strike. These police officers were enforced out by the law and order; their initial places were filled with special constables. The newly hired constables were not as trained as the previous ones; they were given horses and baseball bats, to freely use those on the strikers as required by the situation. The Winnipeg police force was with the strikers and was greatly sympathetic to the strikers. For this reason that, they refused to sign the contract. The citizen’s committee of 1000 was consisting of the elite c... ... a real job. The living inside these camps created frustration between the resident, which then lead to the union created inside the camp to fight off the injustice happening in these camps. Therefore, one can see that the camp created by the federal government were not there to deal mainly with the issue of poverty and providing the needy with shelters. The main reason behind it was to resolve the issue of militancy beforehand. However, as seen in many cases these measures did not only generate more issues to deal with nonetheless also shaped agitation among the already disturbed civilians. Bennett’s government tried their best to resolve the issue. But the era 1930s was not very favorable for them. They nation was trying to get through the great depression and at the same time was trying to calm their civilians down by preventing them to take any serious measures.