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Product Description: A strike gripped Winnipeg from May 15 to June 26, 1919. Some twenty-five thousand workers walked out, demanding better wages and union recognition. Red-fearing opponents insisted labour radicals were attempting to usurp constitutional authority and replace it with Bolshevism...read more
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9781626193390 | History Pr, April 22, 2014, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A strike gripped Winnipeg from May 15 to June 26, 1919.
Product Description: Seeing Reds tells the story of a turbulent period in Canadian history, when in 1918-19 the Canadian government, fearful in the wake of the Russian Revolution, tried to suppress radical political activity at home by branding legitimate labor leaders as "Bolsheviks" and "Reds...read more
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9781551523736 | Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, May 10, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Seeing Reds tells the story of a turbulent period in Canadian history, when in 1918-19 the Canadian government, fearful in the wake of the Russian Revolution, tried to suppress radical political activity at home by branding legitimate labor leaders as "Bolsheviks" and "Reds.
Product Description: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the revolt and sustain the status quo...read more
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9781442611160 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 30, 2010, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike.
Product Description: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the revolt and sustain the status quo...read more
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9781442642195 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 30, 2010, cover price $81.00 | About this edition: The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike.
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9781896300085 | Newest Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A recounting of the lives of the leaders and organisers who were arrested and charged at the climax of the Winnipeg General Strike and how their efforts helped give birth to an active, organised Prairie labour movement that spread across the nation.
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9780773507944 | Rev sub edition (McGill Queens Univ Pr, November 1, 1990), cover price $34.95
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9780039258580 | Holt Rinehart & Winston, June 1, 1973, cover price $4.50
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