1. The Winnipeg General Strike: Businessmen Unite
... soldiers held a silent parade on June 23. The police fired on the crowd killing a person and wounding about thirty others. Black Saturday, as it was called, marked the end of the strike. At this moment in history, there was a great scare as people believed that communism was spreading due to the ... the employers secured from the Manitoba courts an injunction in restraint of picketing."" The Government and the owners hated the unions for the power that they were taking away. By imposing court orders on the unions, it stripped the unions of its power to lobby and protest the unfair condi...
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- Grade Level: High School