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

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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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