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Winnipeg Strike Sparks Proletarian Dictatorship Fears
A Winnipeg general strike fuels alarm over the One Big Union as Alderman Abraham A. Heaps disputes claims of dictatorship. The Calgary 1919 Labour Conference resolutions push pro proletarian dictatorship and fraternal greetings to Soviet Russia and German Spartacists, with a call to release political prisoners and withdraw Allied troops from Russia. Delegates from Winnipeg unions are listed as backing the OBU plan and the Labour News ties the blueprint to the Russian model.
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Abraham A. Heaps
Social-Democratic Party
Winnipeg
Calgary
Spartacans
Germany