Winnipeg General Strike

• • Workers joined the strike because they were angry with working conditions
• • They demanded more money, 8 hour work days, union representation
• • 30,000 workers went on strike in Winnipeg 
• • The strike started in 1919 song metal workers who wanted a 44 hour work week and a wage of 85 cents
• • Authorities were concerned about a revolution
• • Strikers were accused of being communists who were following orders from Moscow and were trying to overthrow the Canadian way of life
• • Strikers were violent; lit street car on fire, threw bricks to police – June 21, 1919
• • The government did not give into strikers, led the way for future improvement in labour legislation