Ebook: Winnipeg's General Strike: Reports from the Front Lines

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. Newspapers like the Manitoba Free Press claimed themselves
political victims and warned of Soviet infiltration. Supporters of the general
sympathetic strike like the Toronto Daily
Star maintained that strikers were not Reds; they were workers fighting for
their fair rights. What was really happening in Winnipeg? In an information age
dominated by newspapers and magazines, the public turned to reporters
and editors for answers.