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Winnipeg Rioters Attack VC Hero as Bolshevik Threat Is Fought
Sergeant Fred Coppin VC lies in a military hospital near death after being kicked by three Austrians during a riot on Winnipeg Main Street. The piece denounces alien enemies and British-born agitators, linking the strike to revolutionary Bolshevik plots and urging trades unionists to choose order over bloodshed. It cites a December 22 1918 meeting supporting Soviet Russia and calls for resistance to revolution.
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Fred Coppin
France
Coppin
Alloway & Champion’s
Main Street
Canada
Winnipeg
Reds
V.C
John Queen
Robert B. Russell
Sam Blumbere
William Ivens
F. J. Dixon
Walker Theatre
Russia
Spartacans
Germany
R. B. Russell
Metal Trades Workers
Trades and Labor Council
Alderman Queen
Queen
Karl Liebknecht