1. Think, Pair, Share
Predict: How might these images relate? How might they differ? What is going on in each?

2. Collective Bargaining Citizen’s Committee of 1,000
Terms To Know:
Communism
O.B.U
Collective Bargaining
General Strike
Sedition
Citizen’s Committee of 1,000
Bloody Saturday

3. Winnipeg General Strike
                                                                                                                                                                         
North Main Street, 21 June 1919, resulting in 30 casualties and one death

4. The Lead Up
Winnipeg
-Largest Western City

5. The Lead Up -Lack of gov’t aid (pension, medical) -Few jobs
1. Soldiers
-Lack of gov’t aid (pension, medical)
-Few jobs
-Resented rich employers (factory owners)

6. Returning WWI soldiers at Union Station, Winnipeg, 1919
Returning home, 1919
Canadian Soldiers, WW1

7. The Lead Up
2. Workers
-Poor pay
-Poor conditions

8. No one is allowed to stop work during working hours
Rules of the Workplace
(Cigar Factory)
10 hrs make up a day's work
No one is allowed to stop work during working hours
All employees to be search before leaving the factory
Loud or profane talking strictly prohibited.
All employees wasting or dropping tobacco on the floor will be fined for each offence.
Hair combing not allowed in the factory

9. The Lead Up 3. Influenza (Flu) Epidemic -Passed along CPR lines
-Hit Winnipeg hard (1918/19)

10. The Lead Up 4. Communist Influences -Russian Revolution (1919)
-”Worker’s Unite!”
-No private ownership
-High Russian Population

11. Power In Numbers Unions
-organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals

12. Power In Numbers O.B.U. “One Big Union” (1919)
-Represents all Canadian workers
-Main Weapon: GENERAL STRIKE!!
Strike Committee 1919

13. Power In Numbers Collective Bargaining
-1 bargains on behalf of the whole
e.g. Union leaders negotiate with a company for better wages/ conditions for workers(union members.

14. How It All Went Down Metal Workers Walk Out (May 1919) Demands:
-higher wages (85 cents/hour)
-shorter work week (60 hrs/wk -> 44)
-Right to collective bargaining

15. How It All Went Down 2. GENERAL STRIKE! -30,000 Support Strike
-Strike Committee
-Winnipeg ground to a halt!

16. How It All Went Down 3. Citizen’s Committee of 1,000
-Business leaders, politicians,factory owners
-Create Special Police Force
-Arrest strike leaders
-Fire civic workers
-“Sedition”
-threatening the state

17. Citizen’s Committee of 1000

18. How It All Went Down Bloody Saturday (June 21, 1919)
-Parade: workers protest
-N.W.M.P. charge the crowd
-1 dead, 30 injured
-Many arrested

20. How It All Went Down 5. Workers Defeated
-Back to Work (Monday June 22, 1919)
-43 day protest ends

21. Results
1. Many strikers were not rehired

22. Results
2. Some strikers were rehired, but forced to sign a contract: Forbidding union involvement

23. Results 3. 7 arrested leaders served prison time J.S. Woodsworth:
-formed the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)  NDP

24. Summary Winnipeg in a fragile state, unhappy masses
Workers STRIKE to protest unrest
City grinds to a halt
Citizen’s Committee of 1000 opposes
Bloody Saturday – violence erupts
Workers return back to work

25. Forum Question:
Were the workers justified in their decision to strike?