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Winnipeg Strike Reveals Middle Class Awakening And Collapse
The piece argues the middle class bore the brunt of Winnipeg’s general strike while organized labor demanded rights. It describes the Strike Committee seizing city life, rationing essentials, and imposing Soviet style control before public pressure restored normal services and diminished the committee’s power. It laments workers misled into striking and facing hardship.
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Winnipeg
Trades Union Movement
Trades and Labor Council
Russia
Eaton
Robinson Store
City Water Service
Labor News
Russell