Winnipeg General Strike

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Winnipeg General Strike Soldiers came back from war to low paying jobs Inflation was increasing cost of living

Winnipeg General Strike Strikers wanted: Higher wages Shorter working week Collective bargaining rights

Winnipeg General Strike Citizen’s Committee of 1000 is created to oppose the strike They call the strikers Bolsheviks and alien scum

The Winnipeg General Strike An angry mob overturns a streetcar operated by scabs Riots in the streets

Winnipeg General Strike The federal government intervened Strike leaders arrested and jailed or deported NWMP and special police charged the crowd Bloody Saturday 1 died, 30 injured many arrested

Winnipeg General Strike Results: Initially a set back for unions Many strikers were not rehired Gradually, much of what they fought for was achieved Need for government to provide social programs

Women in the 1920s Agnes McPhail First woman elected to the House of Commons in 1921

Person’s Case 1928 Supreme Court agreed women were not person’s under the law Woman could not be judges Emily Murphy was challenged as she was a magistrate in Alberta

Person’s Case Emily Murphy and Alberta’s ‘Famous Five’ women took the issue to the Privy Council in Britain The Privy Council agreed women should be person’s under the law A female Senator was appointed soon after

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