During this time period, it was common for a woman to stay home, look after the kids, and do the clea

The businessmen that owned businesses in the city of Winnipeg from mills to department stores where strongly opposed to the general strike. They believed that the businesses built the city and a strike on such a grand scale “alarmed [businessmen] about their physical safety,” given that businessmen as well as employers didn’t really care about the working conditions and long hours their employees or workers had to work in while being paid as little as possible. Thus, from analyzing the situation they became rather concerned and hired the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (a group of mercenaries) who were paid six dollars a day (they were paid more than the police force), because even the policemen and firemen were on strike. By doing this, they hoped to protect their businesses and their own personal safety; however, this often made matters worse. The businessmen s’ point of view is that they were better than the average middle class worker and they worked for him and without businesses the city of Winnipeg would never been prosperous, therefore workers working long hours in horrible working conditions was nothing to complain about. Business leaders, politicians, and industrialists formed the Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand and its primary purpose was to concentrate on a campaign to disassemble the labour movement, they ignored the strikers’ basic demands for improved wages and union recognition and avo

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