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Case Study: The Winnipeg General Strike In Canada
Labor Relation 4330

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The Winnipeg General Strike
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1.0 Executive Summary
The main purpose of this report is to analyze how the environment factors have effect on the goals, strategies, value and power of the actors in Winnipeg General Strikes. By the Industrial Relations System model in Canada, the internal factors of the actors in this strike will be intertwined with outputs of the Winnipeg General Strike and itself. Through the analysis by the industrial relation, the issue of this conflict will be clarified.

The Winnipeg General Strike happened in 1919 was finally ended without substantial payback to the strikers, but experts still approved …show more content…
Led by the outrage of the situation, workers from sorts of industries and trade started the labor movement which is called Winnipeg General Strike. In this memorable strike, interventions from employers and government had led to several key events, including the birth of Citizens’Committee of One Thousand, the amendment of the Immigration Act and the Criminal Act, the death and the injured on Bloody Saturday. The strike finally ended on June 26, which is the fifth day after the bloody events happened, and the strikers did not receive any wage increases or working environment improvement. In the next year of the strike, labor candidates won eleven which including four strike leaders. Besides that, as an independent labor, James Woodsworth was elected as the Member of Parliament and later the form of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation which become into the New Democratic Party today which related closely to him was deemed by experts to the impacts from the Winnipeg General …show more content…
The Citizens’ Committee of 1000 had been crucial impacts of ending the strike.

6.0 Conclusion
In conclusion, during the strikes in Winnipeg, the diversity of Canada and the radicalism related closely to the socialist mind of OBU of the workers are the internal factors that changed by the economic factors to happen this strike. Because the socialist mind of the strike, the substantialgoals of the strikers were distorted by employers committee as a political revolution which is targeted by the government. This situation resulted to the end of the strike.
7.0 Reference
Brammel, L., &McCormack, A. (1979). THE GREAT TRIBULATION: Winnipeg's First General Strike. Labour / Le Travail, 4187-209.

Bumsted, J. M. (1994). The Winnipeg general strike reconsidered. Beaver, 74(3), 27.

Francis, D. (1984). 1919: THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE. History Today, 34(4), 4

Peterson, L. (1984). Revolutionary Socialism and Industrial Unrest in the Era of the Winnipeg General Strike: The Origins of Communist Labour Unionism in Europe and North America. Labour / Le Travail,
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